Part 2.
He then starts talking about 'group think'. In 1908 someone wrote a book called 'Wisdom of Crowds' (?) where it was revealed that a group of people when guessing the weight of the cow, if you average out their answers will be more correct than the individual guesses.
So he got 24 volunteers together 2 weeks ago and asked them to predict the 6 balls of next lottery draw and averaged the results. They got 1 right.
Then he did some team building games, to make them feel more connected, and the next time they got 3 right.
Then they did this using automatic writing (i.e. in a trance state). the numbers were averaged out and this time they got 4 right.
The next time they tried this as a group was on Wednesday. Just before the show they did a group prediction using average prediction and automatic writing. Darren averaged the results and put the balls he selected into a tube. (this wasn't shown to the group).
He then left the room, and revealed the result to the nation as shown on previous programme.
Then Derren said about option 3 and said if he fixed the machine how he would do it, including have an inside person at camelot, creating 8 sets of weighted balls (there are 8 machines and the machine used is chosen after the tickets sales close), hypnotising the people who look after them, finding a window just before they get checked for the final time, then getting back in after the draw, hypnotising the security again to replace the original balls back before being checked again.
Then he said if asked how he did it, he would just say 'it was a trick'
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