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> I heard these stories so often I could often guess what the problem was the moment someone walked in. > "You sounded happier when you said ‘photography’,” I
by hyperpallium 7y ago
> I heard these stories so often I could often guess what the problem was the moment someone walked in.
> "You sounded happier when you said ‘photography’,” I said. My psychic teacher was right – the signals we pick up before conscious awareness kicks in can be accurate and valuable.
These are valuable skills.
- m-i-l 7y ago"You sounded happier when you said ‘photography’” See also "Clever Hans"[0], the horse answering questions correctly because it picked up the subconscious reactions of the observer. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
- xamuel 7y agoOr neural nets trained to detect cancers from patient photographs, that end up learning "if the patient has a ruler next to them, then they have cancer"
- jwist 7y agoReminds me of Orson Welles story about cold reading. https://youtu.be/IjPsnfysrp8 https://youtu.be/IjPsnfysrp8
- gvb 7y ago> A student there mentioned she wasn’t sure what to specialize in – photography, graphic design or maybe industrial design? It was also the first element in the list. Humans tend to sort by preference, often subconsciously.
- lm28469 7y agoThat's how they make you believe, by using basic human patterns/behaviours, they don't read stars/cards/palms, they read you and make you believe they know more about you than yourself, which can be helpful in some ways if you never self reflect.
- precisioncoder 7y agoWe do sort but it can be hard to know the order, if you ask whether they eat their favorite food first or last it can give you a valuable clue as to how they sort
- OliverJones 7y agoAgreed. Listening and observing strangers carefully is a tremendous skill. Here's an experiment worth doing at Y Combinator: give some, but not all, your teams of entrepreneurs some active-listening practice sessions. Then observe the outcomes. Hypothesis: the companies with the active-listening training will do better sooner.
- Dumblydorr 7y agoReading people's emotions, face, body language, and getting them to give you money for it...its a sales job like any other. I'm sure car salesmen would make decent astrologers if they threw on some shawls and golden bracelets.