Re: [tips] That darned ESP trick

2009-12-22 Thread Riki Koenigsberg
with the cards). Here's a related question: I thought that the reason why it worked was due to confirmation bias, but Riki Koenigsberg explained it as due to inattentional blindness (which I guess I'm not as familiar with): anyone want to settle this matter and let me know which one it is? Just

Re: [tips] Anybody See Any Snow?

2009-12-20 Thread Riki Koenigsberg
We were actually hit pretty hard for a first snowstorm. I live in Queens and we got almost a foot. On Long Island, they got over 20 inches. 800 flights were cancelled this morning at our 3 airports. One woman on a cancelled flight who wanted to go to Atlanta for the holidays was told the

Re: [tips] Copperfield trick

2009-12-20 Thread Riki Koenigsberg
All the cards are gone. He replaced them with other queens, kings, and jacks, but since you only paid attention to your own card, you didn't notice. This is another example of inattentional blindness. On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Britt, Michael michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com wrote: