How Accurate Are Medium Readings? What to Expect and How to Judge

Written by Chaya the Medium.

Accuracy in a medium reading is about specifics you did not supply, not about everything being right. Here is what to expect, why some readings are thin, and how to judge one fairly.

The short answer: a medium reading is accurate when it contains specific things you did not supply and recognise as true, and it is never accurate in the sense of being right about everything. In my own practice, some readings are vivid and detailed, some are partial, and a few are thin. I tell clients which they received. Any medium claiming near-perfect accuracy is describing a sales pitch, not mediumship.

I am Chaya, a fourth generation Romani psychic and medium from Ireland, with 41,500 readings delivered since 2019. This is how I would judge accuracy if I were the one paying.

What counts as a hit

A hit is a specific you did not give the medium and could not easily have been guessed: a name or nickname, an object, a place, a habit, a way of speaking, a detail about the death or the last months, a private joke. "They loved you" is not a hit. "They are still annoyed about the shed" is, if it is true. The more a reading contains of the second kind, the more accurate it is.

What counts as a miss

A miss is a specific that is wrong. Not vague, wrong. If I say your grandmother kept birds and she never did, that is a miss, and you should count it. An honest medium gets misses, because impressions are not always clear and are sometimes about a different person than the one you asked for. What matters is the ratio, and whether the medium said which parts felt faint.

Why some readings are faint

I do not fully know. Sometimes the person you ask for is simply not clear to me that day. Sometimes another relative comes forward instead. Sometimes a very recent death is harder to read than one years ago, though not always. I say so in the reading rather than padding it. A faint reading that says it is faint is more accurate than a full one that invented the filler.

How to judge a reading fairly

Read it once all the way through without scoring. Then go back and mark three things: specifics you recognise, specifics that are wrong, and general statements that could fit anyone. A reading with several recognised specifics and a couple of misses is a good reading. A reading made mostly of general statements is a poor one, however kind it sounds. Give a detail a week before you decide it is a miss; some only make sense later, when a relative explains it.

What no reading can get right

Facts about a will, a cause of death, who was to blame, or anything you could verify in a document. Predictions about your future or anyone's death. The private thoughts of living people. A medium reading is about the person who has died and about your relationship with them. Judge it on that, and be wary of any reading that reaches past it. My guide to a medium reading by email sets out what the written format covers and what it costs.

Accuracy and format

Written readings are, in my experience, easier to judge than live ones, because there is no reaction for the medium to read and no pressure to agree in the moment. Everything in a written reading has to stand on its own when you read it a week later. That is the test I would want my own work held to.