On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:22:52 -0800, Stephen Black wrote: >I can see the future.
I bet you can. And it's so bright, you have to wear shades. But I digress. If you were on that "other" psychology teaching list, you would have seen the post about Daryl Bem's research on how the "future affects the past" or "how anticipation is correlated with future events". But you probably knew that too. ;-) >I see that a respected psychologist with excellent credentials >and a position at a quality university will provide strong evidence >in favour of precognition. I see that this will be published, not in >any old parapsychology rag, but in the holy _Journal of >Personality and Social Psychology_. Holy? Please. >I see that there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth over this >one. Actually, this is a good reason to point out that: (1) No single study or group of studies done by a single researcher is definitive. See Leo DiCara. (2) Even if no one can find problems with what Bem reports in his manuscript, the real test is replication of Bem's results by independent researchers. Whether one needs "sympathetic" researchers or research assistants is a point for discussion, especially regarding expectancy effects (Bem makes a point in his preprint to thank his research assistants who were sympathetic to the research -- which troubles me). >News report: http://tinyurl.com/Bem-precognition Note: from the New Scientist website. >Preprint: http://www.dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf Note: what finally appears in print might differ from this preprint. >(My thanks to a colleague who pointed me to this). Can any Tipster use his/her telepathic abilities to see into Prof. Black's mind to find who the colleague is? :-) -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=6494 or send a blank email to leave-6494-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
