At 01:30 PM 6/17/99 -0500, you wrote:
> It would be
>interesting to see what proportion of the psychologists doing
>religious research and theory are religious, and what kinds of
>conclusions are being reached by them and by others. Would one
>find the same kind of split as can be seen in the area of
>parapsychology ... that is, between believers and non-believers?
If I am correctly interpreting the above, I think you may be assuming that all
parapsychologists believe in the existence of psi. Such is probably not the
case. According to a survey conducted by McConnell (1977), close to 30% of the
approximately 230 members of the Parapsychological Association were not certain
of the existence of psi. I doubt that individuals representing that 30%, a
sizable number in my view, have systematically produced negative results. But,
then again, that's an empirical question and I am not aware of any study that
has addressed it.
McConnell, R.A. (1977). The resolution of conflicting beliefs about the ESP
evidence. Journal of
Parapsychology, 41, 198-214.
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