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Title: wizards: yay or nay Post by: BANHAMMERED! on July 23, 2012, 11:02:57 AM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_Project
Quote A "Truth Wizard" is a person identified in the Wizards Project, who can identify deception with exceptional accuracy of at least 80% or higher, whereas the average person is only as good as a coin toss. No Truth Wizard, however, is 100% accurate. The term "wizard" refers to "a person of amazing skill or accomplishment"[2]. Scientists Dr. Maureen O'Sullivan and Dr. Paul Ekman, who led the Wizards Project [2] identified only 50 people as Truth Wizards after testing 20,000 people (about 0.25% of the tested population)[3] from all walks of life, including the Secret Service, FBI, sheriffs, police, attorneys, arbitrators, psychologists, students, and many others. Surprisingly, while psychiatrists and law enforcement personnel showed no more aptitude than college freshmen, Secret Service agents were the most skilled. What do you guys think about this sort of phenomenon? Bad science? Title: Re: wizards: yay or nay Post by: WC on July 23, 2012, 11:43:03 AM yay
Title: Re: wizards: yay or nay Post by: loller on July 23, 2012, 11:46:10 AM Real wizards: Yay.
Coin wizards: Nay. Horse wizards: Neigh. Title: Re: wizards: yay or nay Post by: hekkel on July 23, 2012, 04:08:31 PM I say nay, just because a lot of wizards around here are old people and only practice the Dark Arts. They're not that malevolent, but they do try to psionicly mindfuck you into watching Wheel of Fortune with them.
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