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No pleasing you guys.

We're damned if we do and damned if we don't. When we point out that human perception is unreliable for small differences, we are accused of exempting ourselves. When we point out that we are subject to the same sorts of biases in sighted listening, we are then called "one easily tricked by the power of suggestion," in your own words. Well, self-knowledge is a good thing . . .

Tricks works and there are reasons for this, as magicians know. Making judgmental comments doesn't take those reasons away, for you or anyone else. His tricks work because people tend to overdetect differences, and whining that he played tricks doesn't change that. They just illustrate it.

BTW, it seems obvious that his remarks relate to more than one incident.
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