[ExI] Randi again

[Henrique Moraes Machado]

At 01:08 PM 3/4/2008 -0300, HeMm wrote:
>Randi responded to
>the article
>(http://www.randi.org/joom/content/view/169/1/#i9) ... This can go on and
>on forever. But I still trust Randi more than the grail and object to the
>term 'bogus'.

Damien> Uh huh. You trust this sort of thing, eh?
>So both the abysmally ignorant Randi and his stats expert tell us that 1 in 
>100 multiplied by
>1 in 100,000 equals 1 in a million. Leaving aside the impropriety of 
>multiplying these
>probabilities, that's just... amazing, Randi!

But my point is that a true psychic's acuracy should tend to one hundred 
percent, not to zero. To paraphrase Obi Wan Kenobi: Never underestimate the 
power of randomness.