News Event Prediction

For publicity purposes, the following test will be found hard to beat. I have used it myself, just as explained below, with gratifying results. Effect: During a recent election in a city where an independent candidate was running against two regular party nominees, I stopped into the local newspaper office and offered to predict the winner.

The editor took me up on it immediately, so I wrote a prediction on a slip of paper, folded it once and sealed it in an envelope. Then I asked the editor to sign his name across the face. The envelope was then put in the newspaper safe. Later when the results of the election were certain, I returned to the newspaper office, asked for the envelope, opened it without switching or any other underhand business and my prophecy was found to be correct!