At 07:11 AM 5/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
> In 1954,
>Dement quickly trained another medical student to identify REM tracings
>on a polygraph and served as the subject to show the student the
>connection between REM and dreaming. Dement was awakened five times
>during the night but could remember no dreams. On the fifth awakening,
>"I was so embarassed and upset, I lied. I haltingly produced a phony
>dream fragment" (p. 293). He was "overjoyed and incredibly relieved"
>when he discovered that the student, by mistake, had awakened him only
>during NREM. This seemingly confirmed for Dement the REM/dreaming
>connection:: "If anyone wants to claim that subject or experimenter bias
>plays a role in the REM sleep-dreaming relationship, I could not have
>been more biased toward recalling a dream, and I was utterly unable to
>dredge up even a wisp of one." (p. 294)
Is this really a case of experimenter bias?
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