[tips] Maybe Bem Is Right ;-)

2011-09-23 Thread Mike Palij
An interesting article in today's NY Times on a startling finding by physicists at CERN. One theorist at CERN is quoted as saying: If it is true, then we truly haven't understood anything about anything. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/science/23speed.html?_r=1nl=todaysheadlinesemc=tha3

Re: [tips] Maybe Bem Is Right ;-)

2011-09-23 Thread sblack
..said Mike Palij (yada, yada): Bem certainly thinks so. About to be published: J Pers Soc Psychol. 2011 Oct;101(4):716-9. Must psychologists change the way they analyze their data? Bem DJ, Utts J, Johnson WO. Wagenmakers, Wetzels, Borsboom, and van der Maas (2011) argued that psychologists

Re: [tips] Maybe Bem Is Right ;-)

2011-09-23 Thread Jim Clark
Hi And then again ... it is not at all obvious that some sub-atomic particle traveling 90 km a few nanoseconds faster than expected would help at all in seeing into the future seconds and minutes ahead, or hours, days, and years in lay cases. Of course, that won't stop some people from

Re:[tips] Maybe Bem Is Right ;-)

2011-09-23 Thread Allen Esterson
Amidst the headlines, a cool look at the story: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/09/neutrinos-travel-faster-than-lig.html?ref=hp And a more informative article here: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/22/faster-than-light-travel-discovered-slow-down-folks/ And a