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>He held a meeting with some electrosensitives, and didn’t tell them he had a mobile phone in his pocket. “They noticed at once. After that I was convinced. Ah
by mistercow 11y ago
>He held a meeting with some electrosensitives, and didn’t tell them he had a mobile phone in his pocket. “They noticed at once. After that I was convinced.
Ah the good ol' base rate fallacy.
I can predict with around 90% accuracy whether a given American adult has a cellphone on their person, simply by always answering "yes".
But I doubt you'd be impressed if I pointed at a random stranger and said "That guy has a cell phone".
- daemin 11y agoIt's also likely that the electrosensitives have had this test run on them so many times by ordinary people where "I'll just hide this radio device here somewhere and see if they pick it up", that they get attuned to finding out the hidden object, rather than actual sensitivity. It would have been more amusing if he had the phone switched off already or no phone at all and they asked him to switch it off.