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+I used a similar illustration in one of my Royal
+Institution Christmas Lectures in 1991. I said I had reason
+to believe that among my audience was a psychic,
+clairvoyant individual, capable of influencing events
+purely by power of thought. I would try to flush this
+individual out. \quotation {Let's first establish,} I said,
+\quotation {whether the psychic is in the left half or the
+right half of the lecture hall.} I invited everybody to
+stand up while my assistant tossed a coin. Everybody on the
+left of the hall was asked to \quote {will} the coin to
+come down head. Everybody on the right had to will it to be
+tails. Obviously one side had to lose, and they were asked
+to sit down. Then those who remained were divided into two,
+with half \quote {willing} heads and the other half tails.
+Again the losers sat down. And so on by successive halvings
+until, inevitably. after seven or eight tosses, one
+individual was left standing. \quotation {A big round of
+applause for our psychic.} He must be psychic, mustn't he,
+because he successfully influenced the coin eight times in
+a row?