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What Peter fails to see, is that most people (generalising here) don't base their whole lives around a pack of tarot cards - which I think is what you're referring to in your rant Pea. Tarot cards are not the new "bible" for new agey folk, they are just something which guides you, clears things up a bit and may answer a question or two.
Something to be taken with a pinch of salt.
I never thought for a moment that anyone here based their lives around tarot cards. People here are making claims, however, as to the efficacy of tarot as a predictive medium, and I'm of a disposition to examine the evidential basis for such claims and to test them.
On the other hand Peter, what you fail to see is that not everything can be explained scientifically in the same way as not everything is black and white, or bullshit and science.
It doesn't have to be explained; merely being shown to work is sufficient. We still don't have a rigorous explanation of gravity yet, but we know it works as experiments that test it give repeatable and highly predictable results. If something can not be
examined scientifically, then that's a different matter, as it means the phenomena has no bearing on the physical world. Even neutrinos are detectable by the ingenious instruments of science, and they can pass through a light-year of solid lead without interacting with anything.
I could help you with your little experiment but as I said before, I really see no point to it.
That's ok. If tarot means so little to you that you're not even interested in determining if the purported effect is real or not, I understand why you'd be unwilling to devote time to such an experiment.