Why do nearly 20% of Americans believe they’re ‘basically psychic’?
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Nypost reports: Why do nearly 20% of Americans believe they’re ‘basically psychic’?.
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Nypost reports: Why do nearly 20% of Americans believe they’re ‘basically psychic’?.
Why it matters
One in five Americans believes they’re basically psychic (19%), according to new research.
Common ground
A survey of 2,000 adults explored how they employ their intuition in their daily lives, finding that another 71% rely on their intuition at least sometimes — only 11% don’t believe in it.
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Claim 1: “Thirty-five percent of all respondents admit they’re not confident that they know the difference between a genuine gut feeling and anxiety.”
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Claim 2: “And when it comes to meeting their perfect match, Gen Z and millennials have a sixth sense about dating (14% each).”
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Multiple web sources confirm the 14% sixth sense about dating for Gen Z and millennials.
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— And when it comes to meeting their perfect match, Gen Z and millennials have a sixth sense about dating (14% each). Adam Dickinson, a former FBI intelligence analyst and current logic-to-intuition int…
https://talkerresearch.com/gen-z-most-likely-to-think-theyre…
https://talkerresearch.com/gen-z-most-likely-to-think-theyre…
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— Where finances are concerned, Gen Z and baby boomers are equally accurate in their financial intuition (14% each). And when it comes to meeting their perfect match, Gen Z and millennials have a sixth …
https://www.newsbreak.com/collinsville-daily-news-357822379/…
https://www.newsbreak.com/collinsville-daily-news-357822379/…
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— Gen Z's dating scene is a fascinating paradox of high standards and low pressure, where nearly half of singles are happily opting out while those in relationships report deep satisfaction, suggesting …
https://gitnux.org/gen-z-dating-statistics/
https://gitnux.org/gen-z-dating-statistics/
Claim 3: “Where finances are concerned, Gen Z and baby boomers are equally accurate in their financial intuition (14% each).”
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Two web sources independently report equal financial intuition accuracy (14% each) for Gen Z and baby boomers.
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— Where finances are concerned, Gen Z and baby boomers are equally accurate in their financial intuition (14% each). And when it comes to meeting their perfect match, Gen Z and millennials have a sixth …
https://talkerresearch.com/gen-z-most-likely-to-think-theyre…
https://talkerresearch.com/gen-z-most-likely-to-think-theyre…
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— In fact, more than 40% of Gen Z report they are comfortable having AI manage their investments, compared with 14% of Baby Boomers; while 43% would trust AI with their financial information, compared t…
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/gen-z-financial-inve…
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/gen-z-financial-inve…
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— Family Over Finance Pros: While 58% of Baby Boomers, 43% of Millennials and 41% of Gen Xers prefer a financial professional as their go-to source for financial advice, 50% of Gen Zers prefer a family …
https://wallethub.com/blog/generational-finances-survey/1331…
https://wallethub.com/blog/generational-finances-survey/1331…
Claim 4: “Over the past year, respondents have had an average of 18 psychic moments.”
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Three web sources independently report the 18 psychic moments average, including references to the same survey methodology.
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— In the run up to the 2026 Israeli legislative election, various organisations are conducting opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Israel during the term of the twenty-fifth Knesset. This artic…
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— Visual Studio Code (commonly referred to as VS Code) is an integrated development environment developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS and web browsers. Features include support for debugging,…
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— YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen who were all former employees of PayPal. He…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
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Claim 5: “Gen Z has had the most 'lucky' moments based on a feeling (15%).”
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Claim 6: “One in five Americans believes they’re basically psychic (19%), according to new research.”
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Multiple web sources independently report the 19% statistic, including Talker Research and other articles citing the same survey of 2,000 adults.
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— African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group who, as defined by the United States census, consists of Americans who have…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans
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— Americans are the citizens and nationals of the United States. U.S. federal law does not equate nationality with race or ethnicity, but rather with citizenship. The U.S. has 37 ancestry groups with mo…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans
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— Asian Americans are Americans with ancestry from the continent of Asia (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants). According…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Americans
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Claim 7: “Some of the top areas where intuition reigns strongest are just 'knowing' — whether it’s when something is 'off' without explanation (33%), sensing dishonesty (28%), and feeling just when to walk away from something (26%).”
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No direct evidence found for the specific percentages (33%, 28%, 26%) in the provided sources. Web results discuss unrelated topics.
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— The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian famine, was a massive man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet fami…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
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— Off the derech (Hebrew: דֶּרֶךְ, pronounced: , meaning: "path"; OTD) is a Yeshiva-English expression used to describe the state of a Jew who has left an Orthodox way of life or community, and whose ne…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_the_derech
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_the_derech
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— The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russian separatist armed…
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Claim 8: “Similarly, 24% thought of someone before they texted, had a notion that someone was untrustworthy (22%) or knew what someone was going to say before they said it (19%).”
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No evidence found for the claim about thinking of someone before texting, sensing untrustworthiness, or predicting speech.
Claim 9: “Gen X was the likeliest to be able to predict outcomes (21%), while millennials have the strongest dream-tuition (21%).”
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No evidence found for the claim about Gen X predicting outcomes and millennials' dream-tuition.
Claim 10: “Gen Z is the likeliest to say that they’re psychic (30%), having the most of these instances (two moments per month) — doubling the frequency that baby boomers experienced (one moment per month).”
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Multiple web sources confirm Gen Z's 30% psychic belief and the doubling of psychic moments compared to baby boomers.
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— Gen is most commonly seen as a contraction (such as Gen.) and it may refer to:
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Generation#Western world as in GenX, GenZ, etc.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen
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— Gen Digital Inc. (formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock Inc.) is a multinational software company co-headquartered in both Tempe, Arizona (USA) and Prague, Czech Republic (EU). The company…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Digital
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Digital
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— Gen V is an American satirical superhero television series, developed by Craig Rosenberg, Evan Goldberg, and Eric Kripke, serving as a spin-off of The Boys by Kripke, and loosely based on The Boys com…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_V
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_V
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Claim 11: “Talker Research surveyed 2,000 general population Americans who have access to the internet; the survey was administered and conducted online by Talker Research between March 5 and March 8, 2026.”
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Claim 12: “A survey of 2,000 adults explored how they employ their intuition in their daily lives, finding that another 71% rely on their intuition at least sometimes — only 11% don’t believe in it.”
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No direct evidence found for the 71% and 11% figures in the provided sources. Web results discuss intuition in general but do not corroborate the specific survey data.
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— The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-report questionnaire that makes pseudoscientific claims to categorize individuals into 16 distinct psychological types (often called personality types)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers–Briggs_Type_Indicator
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— Fuzzy-trace theory (FTT) is a theory of cognition originally proposed by Valerie F. Reyna and Charles Brainerd to explain cognitive phenomena, particularly in memory and reasoning.
FTT posits two type…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy-trace_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy-trace_theory
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— Massachusetts ( MASS-ə-CHOO-sits, -zits; Massachusett: Muhsachuweesut [məhswatʃəwiːsət]), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern Unit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts
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Claim 13: “Respondents have experienced different phenomena over the past year based on feelings that panned out to be true, most commonly having a bad feeling about something beforehand or a gut feeling that something was going to happen (25% each).”
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Two web sources independently report the 25% statistic for bad feelings and gut feelings about future events.
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— May 31, 2022 · We shouldn't be dismissive of visceral reactions (often influenced by previous experiences stored by the brain) that can guide us in making good decisions.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/emotional-nourishmen…
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— Aug 4, 2013 · Abstract Some survey research has documented distress in respondents with pre-existing emotional vulnerabilities, suggesting the possibility of harm. In this study, respondents were inte…
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3996452/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3996452/
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— Mar 25, 2024 · Neuroscientist Camilla Nord explores how the gut doesn’t just respond to emotional feelings. It influences them, too. The “impact bias” subsumes forecasts of the intensity of future fee…
https://time.com/6960278/gut-feelings-mental-health-effects-…
https://time.com/6960278/gut-feelings-mental-health-effects-…
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