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Penn and Teller are two prominent American illusionists. They call themselves "Con Artists", or magicians. Their goal is to expose fraudsters, and they entertain the public by accurately demonstrating the mechanism of action of other people's tricks. The professional group that Penn and Teller make fun of is the Miracle Workers. They conduct their TV show with the telling name "Bullshit", where they regularly explain the so-called unexplained phenomena in the most trivial way. They interview people who were allegedly abducted by aliens, personally talk with the "dead" and analyze the internal workings of various miraculous devices to show how manufacturers profit from incompetent buyers. In general, they are dealing with just nonsense.
In one of their experiments, they showed how reliably the power of suggestion acts on completely ordinary people from the street. To do this, they bought a cheap copper ring, such as are usually hung with curtains, and showed it to visitors to a shopping center somewhere in America. They asked people a simple question if they knew what the subject was. Almost everyone correctly identified him and said that we were talking about a curtain ring. Then the same people were asked how much, in this case, they were willing to pay for it. On average, the named amount never exceeded five dollars. Then Penn and Teller placed the same ring in a velvet-lined box and the next visitors to the mall were told that it was charged with positive energy and protected the well-being of its owner. They let people hold the ring in their hand and asked if they felt something special upon contact, goose bumps, or perhaps pleasant warmth. And in fact, most of the participants in the experiment claimed to have experienced some kind of positive feeling.
But Penn and Teller went even further. They donned white coats, hung professionally made posters behind them, and identified themselves as scientists who are studying the energetic effects of these special rings. After such a performance, almost all people who touched the ring talked about its pleasant effects and were ready to pay up to $ 50 for it. Such is the power of suggestion! The white coat and the convincing confidence in the voices of the imaginary scientists made passers-by feel goosebumps from touching the usual copper ring.
In one of their experiments, they showed how reliably the power of suggestion acts on completely ordinary people from the street. To do this, they bought a cheap copper ring, such as are usually hung with curtains, and showed it to visitors to a shopping center somewhere in America. They asked people a simple question if they knew what the subject was. Almost everyone correctly identified him and said that we were talking about a curtain ring. Then the same people were asked how much, in this case, they were willing to pay for it. On average, the named amount never exceeded five dollars. Then Penn and Teller placed the same ring in a velvet-lined box and the next visitors to the mall were told that it was charged with positive energy and protected the well-being of its owner. They let people hold the ring in their hand and asked if they felt something special upon contact, goose bumps, or perhaps pleasant warmth. And in fact, most of the participants in the experiment claimed to have experienced some kind of positive feeling.
But Penn and Teller went even further. They donned white coats, hung professionally made posters behind them, and identified themselves as scientists who are studying the energetic effects of these special rings. After such a performance, almost all people who touched the ring talked about its pleasant effects and were ready to pay up to $ 50 for it. Such is the power of suggestion! The white coat and the convincing confidence in the voices of the imaginary scientists made passers-by feel goosebumps from touching the usual copper ring.
