As one of the commenters on the blog pointed out this is classic cold reading<div><br><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;text-align:justify">“I’m surprised at your surprise. This is classic cold reading. He listed many, many possibilities at various degrees of vagueness. You say the he accurately predicted the shoulder and arm pain, but what he actually predicted was different: problems [not pain] in the right shoulder area [not the right shoulder] OR some completely unrelated and very common condition (stress from a close family member). As it turns out, point prevalence of shoulder pain is up to 26% with lifetime incidence of shoulder pain is up to 70% <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03009740310004667">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03009740310004667</a></span><br style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;text-align:justify"><br style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;text-align:justify">The part where you gave him a second chance was also not surprising. You didn't object to the "issue with her head around about nose height" so he guessed sore throat another common malady.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;text-align:justify"><br style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;text-align:justify">His self-description of his own successes are of no probative value whatsoever.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;text-align:justify"><br style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;text-align:justify">A much better test would be to identify 5 people with a given ailment and 5 without and let him tell you which is which. Your test had not real success criterion nor were there any control subjects.”</span></div><div><div style="text-align:justify"><font face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.399999618530273px"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.399999618530273px"><br></span></font></div>On Thursday, August 1, 2019, Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer <<a href="mailto:ygbechhofer@gmail.com">ygbechhofer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">And yet recently R. Natan Slifkin on his blog was taken aback by the apparent accuracy of the performance of a blei gissen by a friend of his. <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">KT, <br></div>
<div dir="auto">YGB<br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div>