Psychics are often viewed as accurate because they make general statements like, "A major celebrity will spend time in jail in 2007," and then we recall that Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie were sentenced to serve jail time in 2007. This is the psychic trick of

A) clairvoyance.
B) cold reading.
C) failed psychic predictions.
D) multiple end points.


Answer: D

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