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Metascience? > On 2019/Sep/12, at 4:11 pm, Roger Clarke <roger.cla...@xamax.com.au> wrote: > > I smell a nested spoof: > > > ... controversial claim: Observer consciousness collapses the quantum wave > > function in a double-slit experiment. > > > ... novel research protocol [to study it] > > Sceptics Australia, where are you? > > ____________ > > On 12/9/19 2:40 pm, Stephen Loosley wrote: >> Metascience Research Reform Movement >> https://www.fetzer-franklin-fund.org/projects/advanced-meta-experimental-protocol/ >> "How to reveal uncontrolled false-positives in scientific experiments?" >> A novel research protocol has been published for improving the scientific >> process towards more robust findings: >> “The Advanced Meta-Experimental Protocol (AMP).” >> To download the manuscript describing the new research protocol click on the >> link https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01891 >> Background >> As a first test case, the AMP was implemented to study this controversial >> claim: Observer consciousness collapses the quantum wave function in a >> double-slit experiment. >> For explanation, one potential mechanism for mind-matter interaction is >> based on quantum mechanics, in particular the proposal that observer >> consciousness collapses the wave function. >> For sure, the implications for science and for our image of reality would be >> revolutionary, if a quantum-observer effect could be demonstrated under >> controlled laboratory conditions. Indeed, a new branch of science would be >> opened up as a result. >> Previously, in a series of studies, Radin and collaborators have claimed >> laboratory evidence for the intentional action of observer consciousness on >> laser light-interference intensity in a double-slit apparatus. >> To rigorously test the validity of this claim, the novel research protocol >> (AMP), which includes systematic sham-experiments, i.e., counterfactual >> meta-experimentation, was adopted in a confirmatory replication attempt of >> the Radin double-slit experiment. Whereas the replication study was unable >> to confirm the original results, the AMP identified a >> statistically-significant false-positive effect with the sham-experiment in >> the absence of the test subjects. >> Publication Abstract (Walleczek and von Stillfried, 2019) >> Prior work by Radin et al. (2012, 2016) reported the astonishing claim that >> an anomalous effect on double-slit (DS) light-interference intensity had >> been measured as a function of quantum-based observer consciousness. >> Given the radical implications, could there exist an alternative >> explanation, other than an anomalous consciousness effect, such as artifacts >> including systematic methodological error (SME)? To address this question, a >> conceptual replication study involving 10,000 test trials was commissioned >> to be performed blindly by the same investigator who had reported the >> original results. >> The commissioned study performed confirmatory and strictly predictive tests >> with the advanced meta-experimental protocol (AMP), including with >> systematic negative controls and the concept of the sham-experiment, i.e., >> counterfactual meta-experimentation. Whereas the replication study was >> unable to confirm the original results, the AMP was able to identify an >> unacceptably low true-negative detection rate with the sham-experiment in >> the absence of test subjects. The false-positive detection rate reached 50%, >> whereby the false-positive effect, which would be indistinguishable from the >> predicted true-positive effect, was significant at p = 0.021 (σ = −2.02; N = >> 1,250 test trials). The false-positive effect size was about 0.01%, which is >> within an-order-of-magnitude of the claimed consciousness effect (0.001%; >> Radin et al., 2016). >> The false-positive effect, which indicates the presence of significant SME >> in the Radin DS-experiment, suggests that skepticism should replace optimism >> concerning the radical claim that an anomalous quantum consciousness effect >> has been observed in a controlled laboratory setting. >> PUBLICATIONS: >> Walleczek J. and von Stillfried N. (2019) False-positive Effect in the Radin >> Double-slit Experiment on Observer Consciousness as Determined with the >> Advanced Meta-experimental Protocol. Front. Psychol. 10:1891, 22 August >> 2019; DOI https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01891 >> _______________________________________________ >> Link mailing list >> Link@mailman.anu.edu.au >> http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > > > -- > Roger Clarke mailto:roger.cla...@xamax.com.au > T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com > > Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA > Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. > Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > Link@mailman.anu.edu.au > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link -- Kim Holburn IT Network & Security Consultant T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 mailto:k...@holburn.net aim://kimholburn skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
