[extropy-chat] Re: Damien grants psi evidence

[Brett Paatsch]

Damien Broderick wrote:

> At 08:41 AM 12/17/2004 +1100, Brett Paatsch wrote:
>
>>>>As for psi phenomena, there is plenty of experimental evidence.
>>>Granting this (as I do, to the horror of many extropes), ....
>>
>>That's interesting.  I'd normally rate your baloney filters pretty
>>highly, so I wonder what experimental evidence of what psi
>>phenomena you'd grant?
>
> The margins of this email are too narrow to give the full evidence. Look,
> e.g., at the material I've url'd in previous posts, from Professor Jessica
> Utts (and her skeptical foe Professor Ray Hyman) at
>
> http://anson.ucdavis.edu/~utts/
>
> perhaps starting with her stuff linked from:
>
> <In the Fall of 1995 Professor Ray Hyman (University of Oregon) and I
> prepared a report assessing the statistical evidence for psychic
> functioning in U.S. government sponsored research. The report was part of
> a review done by the American Institutes of Research (AIR) at the request
> of Congress and the CIA. >

Thanks, I did read it.

> That assessed material is acknowledged not to be the strongest operational
> data derived from the Stargate program, which remains classified, so
> disagreements persist. Still, Utts makes a fair case for psi.

I think she makes a fair case that there's an anomoly that is statistically
significant and reproducable and therefore worthy of further investigation.

Brett Paatsch