[ExI] NYT reports criticisms of Precognition article

[Ben Zaiboc]

--- On Sat, 8/1/11, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com>
Subject: Fw: Re: [ExI] NYT reports criticisms of Precognition article
To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
Date: Saturday, 8 January, 2011, 16:02
Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>
observed:

> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Adrian Tymes
> <atymes at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > That's not how I read it. ?I think they're
> > saying, the analysis fails
> > to evaluate the
> > probability that ESP does not exist, and
> > only
> > evaluates the probability that it
> > does.
> 
> Don't the two probabilities necessarily add up to
> 1,
> given that either
> ESP does or does not exist?


You see, Stathis, that's the kind of closed-minded
thinking> that is hampering ESP research!  Open your
mind, man!  (Further.  Further.  Just a bit more 
<plop!> Yeah, that'll do!)
 
Ben Zaiboc