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- From: hes@unity.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer)
- Subject: Re: Psychics' Predictions Fizzle For 1992
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.011415.18436@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1993Jan2.044622.25437@netcom.com> <1993Jan2.171125.1@stsci.edu> <1993Jan2.231655.12160@cs.unca.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 01:14:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.231655.12160@cs.unca.edu> kepley@cs.unca.edu (Brad Kepley) writes:
- >>do you really think people actually believe this obvious entertainment?
- >
- >I'd say they do. Aren't "psychics" sometimes used by the police or
- >is that bull*** dished out by the cons who call themselves psychics?
- > ...
-
- I've wondered about this too, and just found an article on this
- topic in the new Winter 1993 issue of the Skeptical Inquirer. It is
-
- Psychics: Do Police Departments Really Use Them?
- by J. A. Sweat and M. W. Durm pages 148-158.
-
- They surveyed the 50 police departments of the 50 largest cities
- in the U.S.. The majority don't use psychics at all, and it
- appears that the others have obtained very little benefit or
- perhaps have been hindered. The article provides the survey, the
- response data and a fair amount of discussion on the details.
-
- --henry schaffer
-