Talk:Postdiction

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[edit] Moved here from the Vaticinium ex eventu ("Prophecy from the event") page


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This is borderline un-neutral... Not that I'm for or against Nostradamus, but author seems biased against him and/or his readers specifically (count the number of example with Nostradamus specifically, compared to others; statistically speaking Nostradamus seems singled out here). How about in this case, author removes real-life examples, instead make somthing up like "a prediction that water will run downhill is an example of satistically likely". That will appease the neutrality-minded and new-agers alike.

Is the "prophecy" by Virgil about Caesar Augustus in this category, or is it exempted because it was intended more as a tribute than as a hoax? Jwrosenzweig 14:11, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hmmm... I don't think that Virgil was presenting the Aeneid as "true history", so maybe not. Certainly Anchises is pretty direct in his praise for the illustrious decendant of Aeneas. I don't think it would hurt to mention it or to leave it out. Mpolo 14:27, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "Steps to avoid postdiction" should be removed

Section violates a number of wikipedia guidelines, among them WP:NOR, (where are these "steps" published outside WP?) WP:WWIN, (Wikipedia is not a guide book), and WP:NPOV (the very existence of the section implies that clairvoyance is real and that psychics should take these sensible precautions). I will remove the section in two weeks unless a cogent defense addressing each of these points is posted below. Peace. Argyrios 18:52, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I gave it two months and deleted the section. Argyrios 14:29, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Most predictions from such figures as Nostradamus and James Van Praagh are deliberately written in a such a vague and ambiguous way as to make interpretation nearly impossible before the event, rendering them useless as predictive tools.

This article is entirely biased; it shows only the skeptics' beliefs and it contains a ridiculous mini-dictionary of irrelevant words in what appears to be an attempt to disprove Postdiction. In fact this is less an article about Postdiction, and rather more an article on the impossibility of Postdiction.

Beyond that it is un-cited and unjustified and, in my opinion, a complete waste of space.