Hello everyone.
You are here to learn some fact in 3 mins.
Have you ever read the daily horoscope in
newspaper or in Facebook Instagram Posts?
I did it just now and it says “you should
start something new today”.
Yup, quite accurate.
I am making my first video today.
But as a scientist, or just a modern people
who have some common sense, I know that it
is not logical to predict my luckiness and
personality with the date I was born.
Moreover, there are only 12 zodiac sign which
means today in the world there are around
650millions of people who should start something
new like me.
Wow if that’s true, That’s tones of inventors
today!
But I cannot disagree that the horoscope sometimes
does make a good prediction, and even if it
is not accurate, it still fairly fit the reality.
How can that happen?
The reason comes to a psychology term called
the “Barnum effect”.
It states that we always give high accuracy
to vague description towards our personality
or future events.
Look at my horoscope again.
“You should start something new.”
Think about what you encountered today or
yesterday.
Did you try a new drink or snack?
Did you choose to use a new hero in video
games? or did you wake up earlier or later?
If you didn’t do any of these, at least
you are watching my video so you start something
new.
that is how vague these descriptions are.
Anything you describe can simply fit into
the prediction.
With the Barnum Effect, we even have the tendency
to apply the description to our life.
Even you are not aware of you trying a new
drink or snack, a new hero, waking up differently
and watching my channel, the above horoscope
will guide you to recall these memory // and
guide you to attribute these occurrence to
the accurate prediction of the horoscope.
That means even the prediction are wrong,
you will find something related and say “oh
the horoscope should be predicting this”.
The newspaper or blogger do not need to make
accurate prediction.
You will help them to make the prediction
accurate.
Wow just realise that is easy money.
Maybe I should also write some horoscope.
You have now learned the Barnum Effect.
You can show off in front of your crush next
time and he or she must fall in love with
you.
Or…maybe not.
Anyway, Subscribe the channel and you can
always learn something new in 3min.
Thank you for watching.
