A lot of psychics claim accuracy rates of 70% to 90%.

The psychic Investigator #3 reported on scored under 20%. Honest psychics would admit: "Almost nothing we foretell comes true."

The following is [retyped] from The Advertiser (SA) 1989 January 2

Tabloid psychics way off target in 1988 NEW YORK:  To hear America's taboid psychics tell it, 1989 will be an amazing year -- Fidel Castro will die in a hurricane, an Italian jetliner will crash into the Vatican and a UFO will land in Kansas. But if such forecasts are to come true, the psychics will have to do a lot better in 1989 than they did last year when virtually nothing they predicted came to pass. According to 10 top psychics polled by the National Enquirer, a tabloid read by millions, the following things were supposed to happen in 1988. Mikhail Gorbachev would divorce his wife. Queen Elizabeth would step down from the throne. Princess Diana would give birth to Siamese twins and Parliament would debate which infant should be ranked higher in the order of succession to the throne. Prehistoric dinosaur eggs would be hatched by scientists. An electric microchip implanted in the brain would be discovered as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease  and  Ten healthy babies would be born to a woman taking a fertility drug. Only a few forecasts came even close to being true. Denver psychic Lou Wright said Sarah Ferguson would have a baby, but his full prediction said the Duchess of York and Princess Diana would have babies on the same day, and that Fergie would have a boy. She had a girl. Los Angeles Pschic Florence Vaty predicted an end to the Iran-Iraq war, but said the United States would force it to end. National Examiner psychic-astrologer Belle Starr also forsaw an end to the Iran-Iraq war, but said it would come when millions of Iranians drowned themselves in the Gulf after a dying Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the entire nation to join him in the hereafter. --Reuter