Roger claims he can use his psychic powers to determine what has happened to individuals who have been reported missing. He points out that he correctly predicted that several missing individuals were dead months before they were found.
A skeptical researcher asks him about additional recently reported missing people, and he predicts several of them are also dead. All were eventually found - none were dead.
The researcher asks Roger whether these cases cast doubt on his psychic abilities. Roger explains that skeptical researchers' negative vibes often disrupt psychic abilities, and if he had made the predictions without the researcher's presence, he would have been accurate. Thus, he believes the evidence supports his psychic abilities.
a. Lack of control
b. Observer / Experimenter Bias
c. Confirmation bias
d. Overgeneralization
d. Illusory Causation -or- Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
e. There is nothing wrong with this conclusion.
f. Illusory Correlation or Random Chance Fallacy