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« on: February 01, 2008, 10:48:13 PM » |
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Did anyone else watch this tonight?
Very interesting with respect to how the ordinary person perceives probability. This is the sort of programme which should be shown after Coronation Street.
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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2008, 10:52:49 PM » |
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i read about it and it sounded interesting til i saw it had Derren Brown in it... will watch it on repeat if you think its worth watching.
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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2008, 10:54:51 PM » |
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Its on the SKY+, the man is quality...
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« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2008, 10:59:36 PM » |
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The sad thing about the programme is that this is exactly how many tipping services work.
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« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2008, 10:59:57 PM » |
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The stupidity of the average punter, and his notions of probability are LOL funny
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« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2008, 11:02:31 PM » |
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Pretty obvious from early on.........he demonstrated an old scam used to con punters.
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« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2008, 11:03:01 PM » |
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The stupidity of the average punter, and his notions of probability are LOL funny
I did notice that a) he was using the old school, obsolete, definition of a billion or b) he messed up his calculation. |
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« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2008, 11:04:44 PM » |
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Pretty obvious from early on.........he demonstrated an old scam used to con punters.
That's kind of the point though. I (and most people on here, except Glasgow Bandit) would have spotted what it was all about right from the off, but the vast majority of people would be suckered in. |
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« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2008, 11:12:23 PM » |
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yeah very old scam, they would advertise ther system saying there so confident you only pay them when you win, then divide the country into say 6 sections sending a different horse to each section from the same 6 horse race, telling you if you dont win they dont win so dont pay us just put a fiver on the seletion for them and when you win just send them there share, they must of made a lot of money .
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« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2008, 11:57:38 PM » |
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I hope he didn't really film himself tossing a coin all day long?
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« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2008, 03:31:10 AM » |
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The sad thing about the programme is that this is exactly how many tipping services work.
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« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2008, 10:24:14 AM » |
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I like his shows generally, how the hell does he do the photo trick with the pundits?.... that was class!
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« Reply #12 on: February 02, 2008, 10:29:58 AM » |
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is it being repeated and if so when?  |
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« Reply #13 on: February 02, 2008, 10:30:54 AM » |
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I like his shows generally, how the hell does he do the photo trick with the pundits?.... that was class!
What you didnt see was that he filmed that scene 7000 times with 280000 different racing pundits, and they only showed you the one that worked out. |
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« Reply #14 on: February 02, 2008, 01:03:32 PM » |
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I like his shows generally, how the hell does he do the photo trick with the pundits?.... that was class!
he 'directs' them to the only pictures of people with their initials by using trigger words in his instruction to them. Very clever stuff is NLP |
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