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What so called "psychics" were right about 2008?

Asked by seVen (3489points) January 3rd, 2009 from iPhone

I don’t believe any of them, they confuse/deceive.

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seVen's avatar

At least predict that first ever Afro-American will be elected as US president?

laureth's avatar

Here’s one list. They certainly seem wrong about the stock market, but semi-right about a few things like the weather.

Here’s another list from someone else with actual updates about what really happened.

bodyhead's avatar

If people predict loud enough, long enough, eventually they’ll stumble on something they were right about.

gimmedat's avatar

Afro-American, seriously…in 2009?

bodyhead's avatar

People who say Afro-American are either in politics or only have white friends.

Trustinglife's avatar

Or don’t speak English as a first language.

bodyhead's avatar

Ahhh, good call.

PupnTaco's avatar

Franco-American: the neat round spaghetti you can eat with a spoon.

90s_kid's avatar

I don’t believe in them either, but sometimes it scares me that they are right on.

Skaggfacemutt's avatar

The law of averages – if you predict enough stuff and use common sense, you are bound to hit some winners. Remember the lady psychic that got national recognition for predicting the assasination of President Kennedy? Jean Dixon, I think, was her name. She became so famous that all the newspapers printed her next several years of predictions. She never got another single one right. If you are a real psychic, you know that this is not how it works. You can’t make broad predictions about things like politics or weather.

90s_kid's avatar

even though sometimes I pretend that I am a psychic :P

darwa's avatar

Nothing that wasn’t ‘predicted’ by a billion or so people with a grasp on reality ;)

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