> On Mar 29, 2014, at 9:02 AM, "Mike Palij" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> But one has to look on the bright side of this situation:
> the student could have attempted a replication of one of Bem's PSI
> "experiments" and had a successful replication.  Who would
> wants to explain that "retroactive causation" doesn't really exist
> and that the results are probably due to expectancy effects and
> other problems?  What if the student's faculty sponsor actually
> believes such stuff?  Good luck.

Mike,
You're missing a truly golden opportunity for paradox. You should fail such a 
project with the comment that, if the phenomenon were real, the student would 
have foreseen this outcome. 
:-)

Chris
.......
Christopher D Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M6C 1G4

[email protected]
http://www.yorku.ca/christo

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