Re: [Vo]:Is the Evidence for Psychokinesis really just a publication bias?

2013-04-20 Thread Harry Veeder
Here is his follow up paper in response to comments on his first paper. In the eye of the beholder: Reply to Wilson and Shadish (2006) and Radin, Nelson, Dobyns, and Houtkooper (2006)

[Vo]:Is the Evidence for Psychokinesis really just a publication bias?

2013-04-19 Thread Harry Veeder
This paper uses a meta analysis of all the evidence and concludes that any evidence for psychokinesis can be explained as publication bias. Should the conclusion be taken seriously? Similar arguments have been used to prove that PF effect is not real, i.e include all the failed attempts to

Re: [Vo]:Is the Evidence for Psychokinesis really just a publication bias?

2013-04-19 Thread James Bowery
I find it intriguing that they didn't cite Radin's paper: http://www.boundaryinstitute.org/bi/articles/rngma.pdf that explicitly addresses publication bias aka the file drawer problem in meta analysis -- and that was despite referencing several of Radin's other papers both before and after.