Clients have claimed that their experiences were real

Question: Are psychics real?
Position1 of 2›: Yes, psychics are real
Argument1 of 3›: Clients have claimed that their experiences were real

Many people who have visited psychics claim that their experiences were real.

The argument

For every claim that a psychic is a hoax, there are a dozen others from those who have experienced accurate predictions from psychics. In 2015, Nicole Pelletiere was skeptic about the whole "psychic" thing. Once she went however, she left feeling, "...thrilled for the future and a little less concerned with the happenings of yesterday." Brittany Christopoulos went to a psychic as a skeptic. She reported that this woman, "[predicted things] that have already come true, such as: me working in a restaurant, getting a job through the connection of someone I worked with and a major life changing event that would affect a close friendship." There are many, many more testimonials like this from those who have gone to psychics in search of answers. They outweigh the opinions of the skeptics.

Premises

[P1]For every claim that psychics are a hoax, many more people report having received accurate predictions from them. [P2] Self-described skeptics like Nicole Pelletiere and Brittany Christopoulos came away convinced, the latter reporting specific predictions that later came true, and such testimonials are numerous. [C] Therefore, because clients' experiences are real, psychics are real.

Counter-arguments

Sometimes, people are willing and desperate enough to get validation that they will believe anything. Perhaps their psychic treated them emotionally well, like a therapist, and after the matter the client believed that the psychic had used some kind of powerful "sixth eye" prediction method. They just needed someone to talk to. There is no magic, or ESP, involved.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] Counting testimonials measures how often satisfied clients speak, not how often predictions succeed; those who receive inaccurate readings have little reason to write them up, so the ratio the premise relies on cannot be read off published accounts. [Rejecting P2] Both cases are recollections given after the fact, and the details described — working in a restaurant, a job through a contact, a change in a close friendship — are broad enough to fit many lives, which is the pattern the counter attributes to the client supplying the meaning rather than receiving it.