[ExI] Psi (no need to read this post you already knowwhatitsays)

Max More max at maxmore.com
Fri Jan 8 06:07:13 UTC 2010



><http://www.sheldrake.org/papers/Telepathy/Nolan_abs.html>
>
>Spike's expected response: well, hmmm, there's got to be a technical
>reason for this, but I've got to feed the kid now so I'll think about it
>next week if I can remember. My good pal John Clark's response: That
>Sheldrake idiot is a fool and made it all up and anyway they cheated and
>it's all BULLSHIT, I'm not wasting any time reading this crap. My
>response: Hmm, potentially interesting but the numbers are too small to
>be anything but extremely provisional, let's see some more replications
>by other people.

Yes, the numbers are too small. Also: How many negative trials were 
*not* reported. In Psi experiments, we rarely hear about "the silent 
evidence" as Taleb calls it.

Max







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