On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:32:34 -0700, Christopher Green wrote:
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.
:-)
*palm to forehead* You're right! ;-)
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
P.S. However, with positive results, the student could claim that
"I knew it all along". :-) Messages from the future or hindsight
bias?
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