this was the question in a trivia contest (where you can't use google obv):

question 6:
Tauromancy is another word for what?

The top two results for Tauromancy on Google are "cold reading" and "bullfighting" (bullfighting is a false positive, which I'll get to later). Bullfighting was the moderator's answer.

All of the "cold reading" links are related to one person, a weird woman who used the term around 2004 where she faked using Tarot-like cards (i.e. fortune telling) but was actually cold reading people (i.e. body language, etc.). She invented the whole thing, and made the word up. To put it simply, this is extremely obscure.

So other than this woman, the word doesn't exist. "Tauromachy" is the word for bullfighting, so it was a typo in the question. Hence the reason that cold reading was showing up on top instead of bullfighting.

All of the teams answered Bullfighting or get it wrong, except for master3004's team who answered "cold reading." Cold reading has no relation whatsoever to "Tauromancy" except for the Google link of this obscure woman who did cold reading.

Master3004 then says he answered cold reading because he read it "numerous times" on the James Randi forum, and heard it in podcasts.

A search of the James Randi forum finds that the word Tauromancy was used only 5 times, all of which said in passing (i.e. no discussion on it, just lumped into something else), and all of those conversations were about 10 years ago. There's no way he read it numerous times on the James Randi forum, this is not the truth.

Podcasts can't be checked, but it's likely he just made it up since nobody can check that.

Crossnerd then offers the defense that perhaps he was thinking of Taromancy, which is another name for Tarot Cards. This is plausible! But then we're back to him answering "cold reading" which is a completely different thing than Tarot Cards. If he really was thinking of Tarot Cards, then the answer would be "tarot cards" or "reading cards" etc. Cold reading and Tarot Cards are not the same. The only connection is the obscure woman who is the first result on Google.

In conclusion, unless he is this woman's husband or son, it is next to impossible for him to know the tauromancy & cold reading connection, let alone know it definitively, as he appears to have done according to his teammates. He also magically knew the second result on Google too.

The cheating is obvious, and he should be banned from these types of games. Games like that would sort of collapse if cheating was a regular thing.

Remind me to never piss domer off ever lol

wrecked

No domer is... lol rawrs

Lol. Our answer was bullfighting. Good job, idiot.

Isn't anyone impressed that I knew the olmecs were from Mexico

i believe master didnt cheat.

thjis isnt the first time youve had a bad read domer.

wait, so how did this even come up?

nh

I also said that it has appeared on the randi forums numerous times (again, thinking of the word that is being used for cold reading by tarot card readers, which comes up much more often than you are stating.) Not that that is where I know it from. I specifically know it from Noah Lusions doing a card reading for the cognitive dissonance guys. I've hear it in multiple other places.

You are wrong. Over and over again. Get over yourself.

having never heard of an Olmec before, I am

if so, i got trolled and gg to everyone

but one of the mods said that your team answered "cold reading" and your own teammate said that you came up with "cold reading"

Because I mentioned in my original submission to necro that we think it could be either bullfighting or cold reading. He asked me to choose one. Our answer was bullfighting

lol

i take that last post back

I did and I stand by it, but that wasn't our answer

I knew that too, albeit non-uniquely! Don't forget I got Boswell too.

You were clearly both cheating

There's a nonzero-rapidly-approaching-100% chance that domer is trolling

Master, when you "basically said that tauromancy has two meanings" to Vader, did you suggest that your team ask for clarification on tauromancy vs. tauromachy?

i cold read master as SHOOK right now

the inability to lie well along with the woat defense of "youd have to be really stupid to cheat this way" is why master wasnt picked in the werewolf draft. typical progression is now to just call the guy who served you names and make some one liners before night.

No I didnt. I did not know the exact pronunciation of either obviously in relation to the spelling in the question.

loldomah

Why in the world is a bridge tournament called a "bowl"?

Your mom came up with some sarcastic one liners last night.

I also wasn't drafted because the drafters are terrible and don't realize the value I bring.