![]() Well, nobody’s claimed that stars like McDowell, Thurman, and Aniston were the sharpest knives in the drawer, but there are others who pay the “synchronicity fee” as well, including Brad Pitt and Rooney Mara. Maybe she would channel him at the party. The party was for the book, but it was also a chance for her clients, many of whom hadn’t experienced the Yeshua channeling, to see what it was all about. Transcribed recordings of some of those sessions appear in a new book, “The Freedom Transmissions,” out Nov. Schumacher said she began channeling Yeshua, a.k.a. In late 2019, just as the world was on the precipice of a plague of biblical proportions, Ms. The dead speaking through Schumacher gives them comfort and reassurance. It’s surprising who’s been duped by this woman, but, as we know, the public has an endless appetite for confirmation that there’s life after death. The piece begins with a gathering at Schumacher’s estate, where a lot of big names show up to hear the medium channel Jesus (she says “Yeshua” because she think it sounds weird to say “I’m channeling Jesus!”). Since there are a gazillion mediums in the world, all of them bogus, I fail to see why the paper is highlighting this one, and, in fact, their publicity will surely bring Schumacher a lot more business. The thing is, the whole article is basically a worshipful piece on Schumacher and her vocal emissions, and the only pushback consists of two quotes from the admirable Susan Gerbic, a columnist for Skeptical Inquirer, experienced debunker, and head of Guerrilla Skeptics on Wikipedia. Schumacher is a full-blown loon, and yet she’s accumulated a stable of wealthy and famous Hollywood-ites who pay her big bucks for “sessions.” Besides channeling Jesus (she’s got a contract to publish three books containing the words of the Son of God), she’ll channel anybody’s relatives-for a fee, of course. Well, it’s gone extra far this time by publishing a very long profile in its “Style” section of Carissa Schumacher, a medium/spiritualist/channeler from Los Angeles. Personally, most of the significant people in my life, friends and family, live in the NY or CA area and share similar political views – thus it makes sense from my experience that we do also tend to speak the same.Sweet Ceiling Cat in a chicken basket! As Greg and I have written several times, the New York Times has in the last couple of years become very soft on spirituality, woo, and the occult, especially on astrology. Therefore, it would make sense that people would subconsciously speak more alike those they surround themselves with – a form of copying in information cascades. From this, I infer that those who have similar political views tend to have positive relationships and therefore have more overall interaction (not just politically). ![]() The areas on my heat map that are red (or of the warmer colors) match similarly to the blue states shown from the election. ![]() I am not very political, but I would identify myself to be closer on the liberal and democratic end of the spectrum. We can observe some similarities between my regional dialect heat map and the presidential election map. I chose to look at this year since the data that the quiz is based off is from 2013. Below is a map of the 2012 presidential election results. ![]() ![]() In addition to the relevance this quiz has to what we’ve learned in Networks, we can see some evidence of network effects and information cascades (specifically the aspect of copying others, especially those we align with). And the results are pretty accurate! I am from Scarsdale, NY – just a 10 min drive to Yonkers, the city that the quiz predicted. Using Bayes’ Theorem: P(from X region|answer) = / P(answer), Josh Katz was able to calculate where you (the one taking the quiz) are most likely from. As an example, I took the quiz and posted my results below.Īfter answering each of the 25 questions, a similar heat map is shown depicting which regions answered the most and least like you had. The three smaller maps show which answer most contributed to those cities chosen to be the most similar to you. The colors on the large heat map correspond to the probability that a randomly selected person in that location would respond to a randomly selected survey question the same way that you did. The questions asked in this quiz are based off the Harvard Dialect Survey, a linguistics project begun in 2002 by Bert Vaux and Scott Golder. The data for the quiz and its results come from more than 350,000 survey responses collected between August and October, 2013. The results of this quiz are shown in heat maps that give us a visualization of American regional dialects. This link brings us to a quiz developed by New York Times graphics editor Josh Katz. ![]()
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