Trying to research: am in mid 70s and read in one of her messages, don’t know if it was an article or book…that " a baby born in the middle east in (1962 I think)? will enter the political world and make dramatic changes in the US. Can anyone confirm or make comment?
You read that in 1962, or she wrote it in 1962, or she was writing about a baby being born in 1962? I was born in 1961, in middle-East Texas. Maybe she was writing about me. Is that what you had in mind?
Welcome to the SDMB, Nannan. Is your question tied to one of Cecil’s columns, like this one?
This page talks about it.
She supposedly made this prediction in 1962:
Famous person born on February 5, 1962? Jennifer Jason Leigh. I liked her in Last Exit to Brooklyn but I’m not seeing her as the Chosen One.
More seriously, it’s 2012. Obviously there was nobody like Dixon described around before the close of the twentieth century.
So there was no one of political note born on that day, and nothing like what was supposedly predicted happened before the turn of the century.
Sounds like an authentic Jeane Dixon prediction to me.
As much as I love the idea that psychic powers exist, in general any prediction that comes true is an accident of statistics and ‘psychics’ are deluded or pulling predictions out of their asses.
I can’t confirm but I can comment, “Who cares what the crazy lady said?”
Actually, it’s far more specific than most. But I’m sure Jeannie Baby would accept it as accurate if someone remotely important was born around that date. Or year. Or century.
How could possibly not be a reference to Obama? She even knew that he wasn’t born in Hawaii! Sounds absolutely perfect to me.
Didn’t Nostradamus predict that Jeanne Dixon would predict that?
I guess you’re right - after all, everyone knows that Obama is a Muslim, so that means he’s from the Middle East. I think Kenya is in the Middle East somewhere.
I wish I could remember the details about an article I read in the seventies. Someone had decided to collect the predictions of 4 or 5 popular psychics and grade them to see who was most accurate. I only remember two things about the article: 1) Jeane Dixon was one of the psychics graded and 2) the winner was a scotty dog who barked once for yes and twice for no. The dog scored 50%. The psychics all scored abysmally lower.
I guess you can up your percentage of correct predictions if you stick with safe and vague ones, but that those predictions don’t sell as well as the good, sexy flyers do.
What about millenium?
As noted in Cecil’s column, the late Ms Dixon made lots of fairly specific predictions, some directly contradicting each other. Her idea (presumably) was that people would remember the guesses that came out “correct” and not remember the ones that didn’t. Not unlike politicians making promises.
Most psychics work on ambiguity, rather than specificity. But the technique of making a specific guess and then modifying if any one aspect is true. For more info on how they do it, see: How come TV psychics seem so convincing? - The Straight Dope … and note espesh the section under “Cold Readings” called “Elements of the Reading.”