Hi All,
I've been seeing a few pendulum sessions posted in this forum that do not seem to be doing anything more than confirming a particular line of thinking by leading from one question into the next based on the answers. Its a natural enough thing to do, and we all have a tendancy to do this in every day life, but it has a catch.
A little thing called confirmation bias will prevent you from seeing anything more than what you want to see. Say you get a YES to one particualr question. That will then lock your mind into a series of questions that are all based on the assumption that this YES is an accurate answer. You no longer test for the accuracy of that answer, you just continue along a path that adds confirmation to it.
Typical human reasoning. Like I said, we all do it.
If you want to get a better picture of whats going on, a more accurate one, plan some of your questions ahead, specifically ones designed to throw a spanner in the works. If you get a YES to question A, then on question D ask something like "what if the answer to question A was really NO. Would ..... then be true?". At this point keep your thinking along the lines that NO might really have been the answer. If the original answer to question A was indeed YES, then a valid case to disprove the negative will be presented to you. If the negative cannot be disproved, you will then be shown that you are not getting accurate answers.
In a YES/NO answer situation it's easy enough to redirect the questions by making a statement, then asking a YES/NO question based upon that statement.
Happy penduluming,
James.