Skeptic Bergen Evans suggested that fortune telling is the result of a "naïve selection of something that have happened from a mass of things that haven't, the clever interpretation of ambiguities, or a brazen announcement of the inevitable."Evans, Bergen. (1955). The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense. Purnell. p. 16 Other skeptics claim that fortune telling is nothing more than cold reading.Cogan, Robert. (1998). Critical Thinking: Step by Step. University Press of America. p. 212.
Skeptic Bergen Evans suggested that fortune telling is the result of a "naïve selection of something that have happened from a mass of things that haven't, the clever interpretation of ambiguities, or a brazen announcement of the inevitable."Evans, Bergen. (1955). T.he Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense. Purnell p. 16 Other skeptics claim that fortune telling is nothing more than cold reading.Cogan, Robert. (1998). Critical Thinking: Step by Step. University Press of America. p. 212.