Diabolos
8th August 2005, 04:33 AM
Seems this cold-reader (sorry, psychic) is appearing once a week on live morning TV in order to "prove" her ability.
From her website (http://www.miadolanltd.com/media.htm )
Look out for me on This Morning, every Monday from 18th July '05 for all of July and August. I'm taking part in an experiment to prove that I am psychic.
Saw this for the first time today, and it seems this is week 4 of the "experiment", and I put the word in quotes because scientific it aint.
Here's what happens: Dolan is being compared with a skeptic, in this case a psycholgist called Dr. David Lewis. Each week they have a different member of the public that they each give a reading to, Dolan using her incredible paranormal ability and the skeptic using it would appear standard psychological personality profiling. They give the person a reading of past, present and future, and keep a score in the studio of "hits" and "misses".
Bear in mind the following:
The person gets to meet Dolan and the Dr. for an interview a few weeks earlier
The person is told before each of the two readings who it was that made the reading
So far for the previous 3 weeks, the Doctor is slightly ahead according to the "hit/miss" meter, although given the travesty of the experiment it hardly seems relevant. Have to say I'm a bit dissappointed with the Doctor, because although he is being skeptical he's also trying to come across as "Mr. Reasonable", and seems to be giving Dolan too much slack when she does get a hit. It's also not helped by the presenters who obviously want the psychic to be proved correct.
End of rant.
From her website (http://www.miadolanltd.com/media.htm )
Look out for me on This Morning, every Monday from 18th July '05 for all of July and August. I'm taking part in an experiment to prove that I am psychic.
Saw this for the first time today, and it seems this is week 4 of the "experiment", and I put the word in quotes because scientific it aint.
Here's what happens: Dolan is being compared with a skeptic, in this case a psycholgist called Dr. David Lewis. Each week they have a different member of the public that they each give a reading to, Dolan using her incredible paranormal ability and the skeptic using it would appear standard psychological personality profiling. They give the person a reading of past, present and future, and keep a score in the studio of "hits" and "misses".
Bear in mind the following:
The person gets to meet Dolan and the Dr. for an interview a few weeks earlier
The person is told before each of the two readings who it was that made the reading
So far for the previous 3 weeks, the Doctor is slightly ahead according to the "hit/miss" meter, although given the travesty of the experiment it hardly seems relevant. Have to say I'm a bit dissappointed with the Doctor, because although he is being skeptical he's also trying to come across as "Mr. Reasonable", and seems to be giving Dolan too much slack when she does get a hit. It's also not helped by the presenters who obviously want the psychic to be proved correct.
End of rant.