I am referring to Derren Brown, a magician/mentalist on UK TV. I didn't think it...

xenophanes on Nov 16, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Poll: What are the Meyers-Briggs personality types...

I am referring to Derren Brown, a magician/mentalist on UK TV. I didn't think it was an original trick, though. And I don't have the text, but yours is nice, and I wouldn't expect it to work too well on HN readers anyway. They might generally agree with the text, but I think a lot of them would not be fooled into believing the text contains detailed, non-generic personal information about them.

sharpn on Nov 17, 2009 [–]

Brown's text was longer, but he credits it as Forer's idea originally (in his book 'Tricks of the Mind' p322)