Blog Post #1

 After reviewing the lecture of Psychic crimes and detectives, my takeaways were psychic testing, missing people. Psychic testing in this experimental research there were three different experiments that were done. The first one was done in 1960 with Brink and it was a 1 year study with four psychics and no useful information was found. Then in 1979 Reiser did a double blind study and also said that psychics can provide significant additional information for a major case to be solved. Then he did a follow up study in 1982. There were two group psychic detectives and college students and they needed to identify items from 3 crime scenes but again there was no significance found. It was interesting learning about Charles Chapel, the man that went missing for months and had Alzheimer's . Then this self proclaimed psychic detective comes up to help but in the end they did not use her predictions and he was later found by a hunter. Overall, while I was reading the slides it just made me think about the tv show Psychic and how it's good for entertainment but there is no science behind it. But that does make me think, what do psychics believe in? Are they aware that they are lying or do they truly believe what they are saying?