WIZ EXPERIMENT /// THE BARNUM EFFECT
The Barnum Effect
> Six quick personality questions.
> WIZ generates your custom personality reading from your inputs.
> Rate each line for accuracy. Then WIZ pulls back the curtain.
> Forer (1948) ran this on his psychology class. They averaged 4.26 of 5 on a reading he had assembled from a newsstand astrology booklet.
WIZ note: I do not know you. I have a script. The script ends with a small confession. Read carefully.
6 inputs · 13 statements · 4–6 minutes · based on Forer (1949), Stagner (1958), Meehl (1956), Snyder Shenkel & Lowery (1977), Dickson & Kelly (1985), Glick Gottesman & Jolton (1989)