November 21, 2024

1 thought on “MRM #76

  1. It is hard to read any of that precognition paper and not feel like social “science” is a complete joke. His possible explanations for the phenomenon (which was detected when subjects were asked to guess the position of erotic images, but not benign images), are:

    1. Precognition or retroactive influence;
    2. Clairvoyance/remote viewing;
    3. Psychokinesis;
    4. Artifactual correlation.

    Paging Dr. Peter Venkman… I find choice number five most probable: psychology is not immune to poor statistical analysis and/or experimental design (and maybe dumb luck).

    If this passes the smell test, what conclusion can’t be cooked up and published in a respected social science journal?

    Although I could be wrong. There are some really strange phenomena in quantum physics which defied any possible conventional explanations and to me seem like magic.

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