A brief correction: the term "cold reader" is not used, nor accepted, by the practitioners — except when they speak among themselves. This is the word used only within the trade to designate the art of appearing to be able to tell total strangers something about themselves with which they will agree, as though it's being done by some supernatural means. The term "hot reading" applies to a similar attempt made with advance knowledge about the person or persons being "read" — a much more advantageous position for the performer, of course. Most of the time, a performer will use a combination of cold-and-hot "readings," if they can. The term ha ha for him to him "remote viewing" is, however, in common use on both ends of the belief-spectrum. Mind you, it still doesn't work, but that doesn't seem to make a difference to either the performers or their victims.
