Magic performances have certainly led to fascinating discoveries about how the different sexes react towards magic as well as epiphanies that reveal fleeting glimpses of the inner machineries of our mind. And now… I boldly present these sweeping generalisations:

1. Girls prefer performances that appear to be paranormal i.e. such as mind-reading or coincidences. Guys prefer performances that are more visual in nature i.e. changing of colours of the backing, bring a card back to the top after being inserted to the middle stack.
2. Girls are more willing to suspend their disbelief and be surprised. Guys are well… SUPER CYNICAL! - always trying to figure out how the effect works. For these friends, enjoyment stems from the satisfaction of unravelling the performance! And not surprisingly - perhaps an unfortunate consequence of our educational heritage - a lot of them are indifferent to seemingly paranormal performances. 
3. For girls, enhancement of the performances can be done by establishing emotional bonds as well as personalising the effect of the presentation. For guys, it is best to be simply straightforward and to-the-point. Clean and crisp.

ETC ETC ETC. So what is the point, you ask. The main takeaway is that certain tricks work better for certain class of personalities. Hence, an ability to accurately typecast audiences so as to select the most effective performance is highly important indeed! 

Anyway, something more interesting: in my journey of magic exploration, I have discovered certain presentations which could be tweaked and enhanced such that they take on a… rose-tinted edge ;)

Such experimentations are amazingly and amusingly awesome! Thus far, one of my favourite concoctions, which I have since christened “Star-crossed Lovers”, has been rather well-received. In fact, just the verbal explanation of the effect was enough to impress Funx! This is totally pushing fun and creativity to the max :D

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