[extropy-chat] the structure of randomness

[Russell Wallace]

On 12/31/05, gts <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Here is some interesting discussion of the Shnoll effect among notable
> people including Jack Sarfatti,
> Nick Herbert, John Walker, and Shnoll himself.
>
> http://noosphere.princeton.edu/shnoll2.html
>

Thanks! The big question was whether anyone had tried to reproduce the
results. In the page you refer to, it seems two people did:

Walker got apparently anomalous results, but explained how they were
produced by artifacts of the analysis, plus daily activity cycles in the lab
(which raises the question of whether the original experiments might have
had similar, undetected problems).

Axford claims to have got anomalous results, but his procedure seems to have
involved a human in the loop (the reason for which isn't explained), and
further details aren't given; there isn't really any way to evaluate this
based on the information here.

So it seems the jury is still out.

- Russell
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