Edited sentence: "  Needless to say, the students were embarrassed, some angry at the revelation that they've been tricked."A few were 'amazed' that the astrologer could know so much about them.A similar experiment was conducted by professional debunker and scientific skeptic James Randi, in which he gave a class of students identical horoscopes, telling each however that it's their own unique personal one prepared by a professional astrologer based on when and where they were born.A team of famous clinical psychologists also reached the same conclusion after conducting their own set of experiments on astrology, as well as other well-known pseudosciences.He gave the students some time to read their horoscope, then asked them to rank the accuracy of the horoscope; the majority of students ranked it 5/5.He then asked each student to hand his/her horoscopes to the person behind them.In another control experiment conducted by ABC's 20/20 team and documented by John Stossel in his best-selling book Myths, Lies & Downright Stupidity, an astrologer was asked to do a chart on Ed Kemper, a serial killer and necrophile.James Randi describes these kinds of descriptions as cold reading, a technique with which you tell people more things about themselves than they actually do by making countless vague descriptions that could apply to almost anyone.Most students were disappointed to see that they've been had, as they found the horoscopes to be quite telling.Some said they had been skeptical of astrology, but [that] detailed horoscope had made them total believers.The astrologer compiled a twenty-five-page report, of which identical copies were made and given to a class of college students.The students were each told that it was their own personal horoscope.They believed the horoscope was true because it contained a plethora of vague and general descriptions that flattered the students, descriptions with many misses but "hits" which impressed the students so much that they overshadowed their doubts with the misses