Can superstition that keeps pace with the times still be called superstition?

That's not science?

The audience in the live broadcast room seemed to be enlightened, as if they had discovered some huge secret.

‘?Gemini was shot.’

‘Damn, I said why do you feel familiar every time you hear these things? It turns out that they are all the same routine, just change the soup and not the medicine.’

‘I shocked my mother for a whole year, and I believe that this thing can keep pace with the times.’

‘Annoy, what is the 16-type personality behind?’

‘I’m so laughing. It turns out that the zodiac signs can win two dogs on them.’

‘I used to think that zodiac signs were fashionable, but now I see that it is an old calendar, and I suffer from the loss of being uneducated.’

‘Haha, I know a friend, and I make millions a year by showing people the charts. There are too many fools in this world. Fortunately, Teacher Wang has such a conscience to reveal the truth.’

‘Woooooooooooooooooooooo, can Teacher Wang help me see the astrology? I feel like you understand very much. I am a Leo with a strong sense of emotion.’

‘Teacher Wang has seen the astrological chart before and said that Leo girls will be injured when they are hit by a car, and they will starve to death if they don’t eat. Just say it’s correct or not.”

‘I’m so laughing, we Pisces never believe in the signs.’

"So, those who tell fortunes and watch horoscopes or divination are actually not that mysterious, right? But why do some people who have been to college like me, even some who have been to college will be fooled? And some people can still rely on this trick and will not be counterfeited?" Mr. Shen was a little confused again.

"Actually, this is very simple. Whether it is fortune telling or zodiac signs, these people rely on these things to do business. And the premise of this kind of business is that they only provide emotions but are not responsible for the results. In other words, they only fall in love but not get married. How do you hold them accountable?" Wang Shifeng chuckled.

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What is Teacher Wang’s example?

This is so vivid!

"For example, the essential logic of constellation is called the Barnum effect, also known as the Fowler effect, and the astral effect, which refers to a phenomenon that some people often think of as a general and general personality description that reveals their own characteristics very accurately.

In detail, when using some ordinary vague and extensive adjectives to describe a person, some people with limited cognition or lack independent thinking and rational thinking are often easy to accept these descriptions and believe that what the description refers to is oneself, self-incorporation, and self-invigoration.

The Barnum effect reveals from the opposite side that some people are superstitious about zodiac numerology due to cognitive defects. Unfortunately, many people distort this theory to promote the effectiveness of zodiac numerology, and this type of propaganda is often called pseudo-psychology.

People affected by the Barnum effect will become targets for some people to fool, for example.

Everyone knows trendy brands. The promotion method of trendy brands does not choose popular media such as TV and advertising, and small circles, post bars or online trendy people, niche art or entertainment industries, such as rap, are the groups with the most popular trendy brands.

This will make the audience easily related to the identity and group of fashionable young people wearing this brand, and then the association between fashionable young people wearing fashionable brands.

Some people who pursue trends and are independent people are firmly choosing to buy this trendy brand with low cost performance. But in fact, there is no essential connection between trendy brands and trendy people, and it is just a self-illusion of the Barnum effect.

This is commonly known as IQ tax." Wang Shifeng smiled.

In a modern society full of IQ tax, this is the first time that million viewers in the live broadcast room have received such a detailed and sincere interpretation from a public figure.

I have almost explained the essence of IQ tax. I am willing to call Teacher Wang the only anchor on the Internet who is not good at cutting fans and collecting IQ tax!

Tears, love me!

"In fact, the basis for making money by relying on this is social probability science, not just success probability, but also some social and natural sciences. I will give you an example.

Many years ago, a miracle doctor in the village said it was a secret recipe passed down from ancestors, which was a boy. It worked and sold for 3,000 yuan.

And I took medicine first and gave money after giving birth to the boy.

But in fact, his medicine has no effect at all, but because he knows the probability of knowing the fertility ratio, the probability of a boy is actually about 33%. If he knows statistics,

In an environment where boys prefer girls, those who give birth to boys will be very happy to handle the situation, so they have to send money happily, not afraid of others running away.

The family that gave birth to girls will definitely not make a big fuss because they were blind. Moreover, because they didn't spend money before, they would not come to make trouble. What's more, they would comfort themselves and be dishonest. They would continue to ask for medicine to give birth to children until they were born unknown.

Not only was this miracle doctor not exposed, but he was even given various myths, a room full of banners, and even a billionaire.

This story should explain your second question, why these fortune tellers are not easily revealed," Wang Shifeng said with a smile.

"Hey, it seems that it is almost impossible to change my parents' superstition through other methods. These fortune tellers are too sinister." Mr. Shen said hatefully.

"This industry has a deep foundation. Its development over thousands of years is almost completely related to the Chinese cultural ecology. It is better to believe that it has something than to believe that it does not have it. This mentality and viewpoint is almost pervasive.

Because in fact, this has an indirect binding relationship with our ancestor worship and is one of the reasons why Chinese civilization can be passed down to this day. You have not discovered that all fortune telling techniques, whether it is blessing or debt, are the unity owed by your ancestors?" Wang Shifeng chuckled.

The audience who had lost their fortunes once again imposed on it.

Indeed, those great immortals basically say when telling fortunes that you have something left by your ancestors, and you need to do a ritual that you can break it. If you don’t break it, it will block your luck and make you have to believe it and pay it to him.

Even a person who is the most loyal person will feel compassion once he hears that he has something to do with his ancestors.

"Teacher Wang is really talking about it. Those fortune tellers do have this set of rhetoric. They are very uncomfortable. The most annoying thing is that even if you don't believe it, you will have a knot in your heart and you can only give them money in the end.

This is not as good as those in the West who believe in God at least just do it and just repent. There is no need to lose money to avoid disasters. No wonder people say that we have no faith, but all of them are faith money." Mr. Shen said indignantly.

Wang Shifeng raised his eyebrows slightly and said in a deep voice, "Mr. Shen's words are different. There is no big relationship between the two. Jidu belongs to religion, and fortune-telling belongs to deduction and divination. The essence of the two is still very different. One is to enslave human nature and the other is to enlighten human nature.

Even if you spend money, it is a behavior of losing money and avoiding disasters, and it is an act of self-removing karma.

But religious confession is waiting for God to forgive, you can think about the gap yourself.

Also, what is faith? Who told you the standard? Who told you the definition?

If you really believe that they say that China has no faith and you are deceived, the people who say this to you will definitely have ulterior motives. First of all, the definitions of the so-called mainstream values ​​in modern times are basically defined by Westerners.

They have established the entire humanities framework and taken over the dominance of culture. So what faith is the basis of what people say in the West, what people say in sociology, politics, philosophy, medicine, etc.

People tell you what faith is, a church, a holy book and a set of rituals, this is faith. When their boss comes to power, he must follow the holy book and get married, that is what they call faith.

But we are not in China. We have ancestors worshipped, and all our gods are cultivated by mortals, and we must have their own functions and work to become gods and immortals. If this god has no job, we can even not worship Him and let Him fall from the altar.

Moreover, the gods we have passed down now, whether Buddhism or Taoism, are basically all mortals who can practice. Guanyin, Guan Gong, protect the family immortals, and even one day in the future, we can have great merits and we can also become gods.

But what about the Western Gods? They are the high rulers and judges. They require the worship of believers without even performing any functions. It seems to be no different from robbers, only talking about rules and not obligations. Do you want such a belief?

Think about it carefully, the relationships we are most familiar with, such as the God of Wealth, the God of Land, and Guanyin, are equal. If we ask for it, we will sincerely kneel down, but we will not completely rely on external things, waiting for pies to fall from the sky. We have something to ask for it, but we will also do something.

Therefore, our belief is ‘self’, our own self,
Chapter completed!