Derren Brown had an interesting example of this on UK TV a few years ago. It's nothing new, but showing it this way demonstrates how you can get drawn in: > Th

Derren Brown had an interesting example of this on UK TV a few years ago. It's nothing new, but showing it this way demonstrates how you can get drawn in: > The System, a Channel 4 special in which Brown shared his "100 percent guaranteed" method for winning on the horses, was first shown on 1 February 2008. > The show was based around the idea that a system could be developed to "guarantee a winner" of horse races. Cameras followed a member of the public, Khadisha, as Brown anonymously sent her correct predictions of five races in a row, before encouraging her to place as much money as she could on the sixth race. > After Brown had placed a bet of £4,000 of Khadisha's money on a horse in the final race, he explained how "The System" worked. He had started by contacting 7,776 people and split them into six groups, giving each group a different horse. As each race had taken place 5⁄6 of the people had lost and were dropped from the system. Brown had a different person backing each horse in each race, and one individual, Khadisha, won five times in a row. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Derren_Brown_shows#Derren_Brown:_The_System_(2008) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Derren_Brown_shows#Der...