It doesn't have to be true. It's a simple game.

(05-23-2011 04:23 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  

(05-22-2011 04:20 PM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  

(05-22-2011 03:56 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  I'm curious as to why any of you think someone who you don't know and doesn't know you can succinctly and correctly discern your personalities, which are complex and evolving constraints to begin with, merely by what Pink Floyd albums you prefer at the time you post?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading

A good cold reader would easily be able to analyse you in even an online conversation. Just asking for a list of album names is a bit too plain, though.

Quote:Cold reading is a series of techniques used by mentalists, illusionists, and con artists

I stopped when I got to the words con artist. Sorry, I don't buy into this. The only I believe you're ever going to know what a person is really like is by getting to know them on a one-to-one basis. Not through something as absurd is this. This is on the same level as psychics and tarot card readers, both things I don't believe in anyway.

All this guy is doing is coming up with character traits based on the themes of the albums, not who you really are. The Division Bell is about communication, so of course he'd say I must love to talk a lot if I said I liked it. That doesn't take into account that my favorite albums change almost daily, and thus if I answered this question tomorrow with three different albums, suddenly I'd have a totally new personality.

well, i though i made myself preaty clear then i said on the first post that im probably going to be inaccurate. and i base these not on concept like u think, in fact i didnt even know the division bell was about commucation. i based it off personality in the music itself. the albums were lighter so i assumed ur probably a more positive person. as for talks alot, i came up with that conclusion by the fact that u picked more popish albums compared to their other works. people into more popish music seem like they talk more.

The Dark Side of the Moon is a "poppish" album?

I think by poppish he meant mainstream.

Pop and mainstream aren't necessarily synonymous, though. He also used that word to describe Obscured By Clouds and The Division Bell, and I wouldn't not characterize either of those album as "mainstream".

(05-23-2011 11:26 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  Pop and mainstream aren't necessarily synonymous, though. He also used that word to describe Obscured By Clouds and The Division Bell, and I wouldn't not characterize either of those album as "mainstream".

mainstream is what i meant. and compared to the other floyd albums they are quiete mainstream.

(05-23-2011 04:23 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  

(05-22-2011 04:20 PM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  

(05-22-2011 03:56 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  I'm curious as to why any of you think someone who you don't know and doesn't know you can succinctly and correctly discern your personalities, which are complex and evolving constraints to begin with, merely by what Pink Floyd albums you prefer at the time you post?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading

A good cold reader would easily be able to analyse you in even an online conversation. Just asking for a list of album names is a bit too plain, though.

Quote:Cold reading is a series of techniques used by mentalists, illusionists, and con artists

I stopped when I got to the words con artist. Sorry, I don't buy into this. The only I believe you're ever going to know what a person is really like is by getting to know them on a one-to-one basis. Not through something as absurd is this. This is on the same level as psychics and tarot card readers, both things I don't believe in anyway.

All this guy is doing is coming up with character traits based on the themes of the albums, not who you really are. The Division Bell is about communication, so of course he'd say I must love to talk a lot if I said I liked it. That doesn't take into account that my favorite albums change almost daily, and thus if I answered this question tomorrow with three different albums, suddenly I'd have a totally new personality.

Heh, too bad if you're that sceptical about it, but it actually works. And it's not as simple and dumb as you make it seem.

(05-23-2011 02:49 PM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  

(05-23-2011 04:23 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  

(05-22-2011 04:20 PM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  

(05-22-2011 03:56 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  I'm curious as to why any of you think someone who you don't know and doesn't know you can succinctly and correctly discern your personalities, which are complex and evolving constraints to begin with, merely by what Pink Floyd albums you prefer at the time you post?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading

A good cold reader would easily be able to analyse you in even an online conversation. Just asking for a list of album names is a bit too plain, though.

Quote:Cold reading is a series of techniques used by mentalists, illusionists, and con artists

I stopped when I got to the words con artist. Sorry, I don't buy into this. The only I believe you're ever going to know what a person is really like is by getting to know them on a one-to-one basis. Not through something as absurd is this. This is on the same level as psychics and tarot card readers, both things I don't believe in anyway.

All this guy is doing is coming up with character traits based on the themes of the albums, not who you really are. The Division Bell is about communication, so of course he'd say I must love to talk a lot if I said I liked it. That doesn't take into account that my favorite albums change almost daily, and thus if I answered this question tomorrow with three different albums, suddenly I'd have a totally new personality.

Heh, too bad if you're that sceptical about it, but it actually works. And it's not as simple and dumb as you make it seem.

I would need to see some kind of scientific or empirical evidence that it works before I'll believe that it does. I don't think it's bad that I'm skeptical; who goes around believing whatever people tell them? I'm a logic & reason kind of person. If you tell me something is true that I don't initially believe, prove it to me with some kind of evidence, and I might change my mind. If you can't, I'm going to stand by my assertion that I don't think it's true/right/possible/etc. Not just in relation this particular topic, but anything.

That is very interesting.
Russian, how would you describe a person who hates all Pink Floyd albums but Wish You Were Here?

01 - Wish You Were Here

02 - The Wall

03 - The Dark Side Of The Moon