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TIL in 1948 psychologist Bertram Forer gave a personality test to 39 students and provided the results one week later. The class gave the results' accuracy a rating of 4.3 out of 5. The results Forer provided to every student was exactly the same sketch, all gathered from a newsstand astrology book.

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