Sherlock Methods (Question)

[Enigma]

Everyone here is Sherlockian.

I am sure everyone is a fan of Sherlock's methods.

Have u tried Sherlock's methods in real life?

If yes, tell us your most successful deduction and the most failed one!!

[Arcadia]

Hm, I'll have to think about that. I'm sure when I was younger and could think straight I must've done something brilliant! :p Not recently, though, too much input! I need to learn to use a filter like Sherlock's, that's what I need......

[Enigma]

I always deduce different facts about people around me and shock them with it.

Of course, I don't say I deduce them. I say weird stuff like "Its your aura" or I say I have psychic powers. :P

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Haven't tried yet but I know I would be rubbish.

[T.o.b.y]

I am rubbish at it too, but I try anyway. For example, when I'm standing in line at the supermarket, I like to look at what other people are buying and wonder what that might tell me about them. The problem with not being Sherlock and this being real life, though, is that there are always so many possibilities. I mean, how does he know which one is right? Take, for example, a person buying twenty cans of cat food. He might own a cat. He might have a neighbor who owns a cat and be doing her / him a favor. He might be a cat sitter. He might work at an animal shelter. And has he taken so many cans because he's thrifty and they were on sale, or because he lives way out in the country and doesn't get to the store all that often? Or because he has to feed a lot of cats at the same time?

[J.P.]

After watching the whole show over a weekend, I thought it might change my perception. But not. I have to remind myself of looking closer, and than I don't see much. 

 

But I was surprised by my brain quite a lot. It just doesn't work like Sherlock's. I don't have a Mind Palace but something like a Messie Mind Cellar with a very limited conscious access. 

When working on a topic that really interests me, it can happen that I do connect information from apparently unconnected sources, or recall a detail from a distant past, or just do something instinctively that actually doesn't make sense, but it makes sense in a particular subtext. Still, all the calculations run under the surface, I don't have much control over them. So I can have an epiphany in the middle of the day, while doing something totally unrelated. I had indeed some really amazing epiphanies.

 

Once (and totally spontaneous) I used an imagination technique similar to the court scene with the women in SoT to get an information I didn't have from imagined someone who did. Surprisingly it worked and I almost fainted as I got my answer, lol. 

 

But reading peope while interacting with them? Not really my area.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

After watching the whole show over a weekend, I thought it might change my perception. But not. I have to remind myself of looking closer, and than I don't see much.

 

But I was surprised by my brain quite a lot. It just doesn't work like Sherlock's. I don't have a Mind Palace but something like a Messie Mind Cellar with a very limited conscious access.

When working on a topic that really interests me, it can happen that I do connect information from apparently unconnected sources, or recall a detail from a distant past, or just do something instinctively that actually doesn't make sense, but it makes sense in a particular subtext. Still, all the calculations run under the surface, I don't have much control over them. So I can have an epiphany in the middle of the day, while doing something totally unrelated. I had indeed some really amazing epiphanies.

 

Once (and totally spontaneous) I used an imagination technique similar to the court scene with the women in SoT to get an information I didn't have from imagined someone who did. Surprisingly it worked and I almost fainted as I got my answer, lol.

 

But reading peope while interacting with them? Not really my area.

I'm a lot like that too. Random information will pop up at random times including in the middle of the night as I'm trying to sleep.

[J.P.]

What was mostly popping up in the middle of the night were things I forgot to do at work. But I'm better now. :D

[HeroinOrHeroine]

As a Social Worker, success, and safety, in my job is dependant on my ability to read people and environments and I'm quite good at it. I'll tell you about my most ridiculous fail though: I was at a family's home and was surveying the physical safety. I asked the mother, "do you have a fireplace?". Her first language is Urdu, and she looked very confused. She asked me, "a fireplace? Where you light a fire?". "Yes, a fireplace. A fire inside. You know?". She stared at me for what felt like forever, then gestured right beside where I was sitting and said, "like that?". My arm was touching the side of it. What I thought was a language barrier was just her being baffled by how unobservant I was. Oops! So embarrassing.

[Shadow Dweller]

I usually didn't know where the final result came from. It is just I saw something then suddenly PING! , an impression came. It is possible to interconnect the clues to the final conclusion but it must be done with painstaking backtracking later. There's an uncle who (I met the first time that day) teach in the electrical engineering faculty. He's well-liked and seemingly a gregarious-kind of person. One of the cousins wants to learn on that faculty and he asked me about what I think about the aforementioned uncle. I blurted out, "Nasty." Later it was revealed that he really is unpleasant teacher with reputation of not-censoring his words, bullying and humiliating students. Two years later, that uncle was forced to make an apology in order to save his career because he insulted the said cousin's parents in public before his other students. He took his personal dislike to work, combined with lack of self-control, the result he almost lose a job.

 

My way seems to be the polar opposite of Sherlock's. Our similarity seems to be to know how people would react in general and their motivations but not because we can place ourselves in their shoes. Instead it is all about a wide array of possibilities and a matter of choosing the most logical outcomes (and to prepare for each of those possibilities because perception often shaped by our own experience and thus there's a possibility that mine is faulty). Wish I can play music as beautiful as him, though :D

[Enigma]

I am rubbish at it too, but I try anyway. For example, when I'm standing in line at the supermarket, I like to look at what other people are buying and wonder what that might tell me about them. The problem with not being Sherlock and this being real life, though, is that there are always so many possibilities. I mean, how does he know which one is right? Take, for example, a person buying twenty cans of cat food. He might own a cat. He might have a neighbor who owns a cat and be doing her / him a favor. He might be a cat sitter. He might work at an animal shelter. And has he taken so many cans because he's thrifty and they were on sale, or because he lives way out in the country and doesn't get to the store all that often? Or because he has to feed a lot of cats at the same time?

Actually, you could have narrowed down the possibilities by what quality of cat food was it or what was the day or was he buying the cat food at the end or start of the month. If it's weekdays or weekend at the time of buying of the cans. Or why do you suppose he chose this brand of cat food. Or even does he look like part timer or someone weird and lonely or just plain normal.

[joanneta1]

Oh, Heavens! I have to do basic stuff on a daily basis, because teaching twenty-somethings and getting their attention, but most importantly, keeping their attention and overawing them enough to carry on with your lesson involves pretty basic Dr Bell-level deductive reasoning, observational skills and acting  abilities. My worst problem is identical twins, who are nature's clones, and the bane of any teacher's life. They need Sherlock-level acuity not to confuse one with the other in class! My main problem is not telling them where they have been just before coming to class based on their obvious exterior evidence, but talking almost as fast as BC does (perhaps it's genetic, being female I am supposed to be more of a linguist and more talkative), but unconsciously speeding up and coming crashing down to Earth when I get a roomful of blanc, glazed stares, take a deep breath and repeat everything at one-third or even one-fourth speed. Since I consider it a failing, I tell them beforehand to please, let me know if they cannot keep up. Talk about frustration, then! Those are the moments when  I seriously debate with myself if I could be a cashier in a supermarket, a bank teller, or any nicely boring, repetitive job. Of course, there my role-model is no longer Sherlock but T.S. Lawrence.