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Is there a scientific explanation for the 'Evil Eye' ?

Is there a scientific explanation for the 'Evil Eye' ?

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lizzie said:
The evil eye? What the heck is the evil eye? When I give someone the evil eye, it just means that I look at them with a don't-you-dare look. :lol:
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Its how people look before their morning coffee
 
Charlie Manson had two of them.
 
You think the evil eye is bad? Try the evil pie!

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csbrown28 said:
This guy is obviously relying solely on intuition, which as it turns out, is a pretty bad way to make decisions.

If I flip a quarter and it comes up heads 5 times in a row. My intuition tells me I must have a better chance of flipping tails the next try, right? Nope, still 50-50%.

There are lost of examples of where people string together ideas and make "simple" but mistaken assumptions. Even if he's right, he would still be right for all the wrong reasons (we call that a lucky guess).

For me, Given the consequence of belief, which in this case would be to take something as true without any real evidence at all, I remain skeptical.
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Contrary to intuition, flipping a coin is not a 50-50... it's closer to 51-49 based towards the side facing up when the coin is flipped.
 
To the op; in numerous tests the effect of feeling being watched has been proven as a real, weak, but statistically significant result.

If you feel that you are being watched, there's a 5% better than chance that someone was looking at / watching you, and that includes if the person watching is doing so remotely.
 
BmanMcfly said:
Contrary to intuition, flipping a coin is not a 50-50... it's closer to 51-49 based towards the side facing up when the coin is flipped.
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BmanMcfly said:
To the op; in numerous tests the effect of feeling being watched has been proven as a real, weak, but statistically significant result.

If you feel that you are being watched, there's a 5% better than chance that someone was looking at / watching you, and that includes if the person watching is doing so remotely.
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Evidence for any of these claims?
 
lizzie said:
The evil eye? What the heck is the evil eye? When I give someone the evil eye, it just means that I look at them with a don't-you-dare look. :lol:
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No this is an actual thing, carried through the centuries by gypsies who were given the trait by aliens 1,700 years ago in the original Mormon colony in America.

Used in conjunction with voodoo, it can harass people and has been known to lead to suicide by too much sex.

Beware!
 
RAMOSS said:
Really?? Let's see you show that it is MORE than superstition and woo.

As for Dr Ross' credentials, he is the guy that came up with the idea that repressed memory of satantic cults and incest, and that caused many of his patients to commit suicide, and he had a lot of law suits against him

Dr. Colin A. Ross: Psychiatry, the Supernatural, and Malpractice Most Foul : THE PROCESS IS…

As a source of reliable scientific claims, I would rate him at near a 1 of a scale of 1 to 10.
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weird
 
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