Indeed, and there are very powerful tests available that should be very
attractive to psychics. Take e.g. the case of mediums who claim to be
able to tell something about a person's life, via the spirit of deceased
family members. In that case one can take, say, 20 volunteers who'll let
the psychic do a reading for them. The psychic will be blindfolded, so
she won't know who the person is that she's doing the reading for.
She'll also not speak but instead write everything down. To her the
persons are identified by a number. She'll do reading for all twenty
volunteers over the course of a few weeks, she can ask people back to
get a better reading.
Meanwhile all the 20 volunteers will write up their life stories. When
the time limit for the readings is over, say after a few months, the
psychic will get all the biographies. The biographies are unlabeled, her
task is to correctly match the readings to the biographies. Clearly,
within such a setup the psychic has a huge amount of freedom of action.
Also, the statistics of this test are extremely favorable to the
psychic. Pure chance only will only lead to just a few accidental
matches at most. The expectation value is just 1 (with N subjects the
probability to get a particular one right is 1/N, multiplied by N this
yields the expectation value of 1). No psychic will go into the test
claiming she can only get a few of the 20 right, but that's actually all
it takes to prove her psychic ability beyond a reasonable doubt. After
such a successful tests, one can always do a larger one to improve the
statistical significance.
Saibal
On 20-05-2019 23:03, howardmarks wrote:
Ignorance of what? Telepathy is defined as some sort of
"communication" by all who claim they have it.
If you think that the dialogue going on in your head - when you think
of someone - is telepathy, then you are mistaken. But demo it.
As Bruno says, "and I see no evidences" sums it up - his conclusion
and 100 years of scientific investigation by PSICOP (_Committee_ for
the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the _Paranormal)__ totally
agree. Look them up: _PSICOP was started in the 19th century to
investigate such claims - of which Randi was a prominent associate -
But, Cosmin, if you have (other than anecdotal) evidence of
telepathy, demonstrate it! That's what science is all about, isn't
it? Demonstrate my ignorance ! We are all happy to say "uncle" if
you can demonstrate telepathy or any other psychic capability...
On 5/20/2019 3:06 PM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote:
Sorry mate, your ignorance doesn't stand for lack of evidence.
http://deanradin.com/evidence/evidence.htm [1]
On Monday, 20 May 2019 15:37:41 UTC+3, howardmarks wrote:
Your definition of telepathy is not part of reality, when no
evidence exists, no matter how hard one searches for evidence of
"telepathy". That little voice in your head that you believe (not
know) is not evidence of telepathy.
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