[extropy-chat] the structure of randomness

[gts]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:56:14 -0500, Damien Broderick  
<thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> What baffles me is that this work was completed nearly 20 years ago, but  
> nothing seems to have come of it, even though access to excellent  
> computation is now cheap and readily available.

I just skimmed through the original research paper. Shnoll and his  
colleagues freely admit the distributions pass tests for normalcy, which  
in the minds of many would make his observations not worthy of further  
investigation.

But I agree with you. If the data is not due to some kind of effect of the  
solar system on his instruments then something very remarkable is  
happening here, at least on the surface. I'd like to see a professional  
statistician review his proprietary methods and determine some kind of  
confidence level. If Shnoll offered one then I missed it in my first read.

-gts