Some good ideas. I have already been to various fairs and markets, and it was interesting hearing from other stalls hat at first they thought I was crazy, but after watching people feel and get healing results for a number of hours they had their opinion flip. Only a little money was made selling coils, I think New Zealanders are the wrong market.
I never tried an experiment as you suggest, but would first try something along the lines of the manicure test where people assume their hands are going to be engaged with a different activity, and then see if they spontaneously report, or afterwards if asked that there was any unexpected sensation in their hands. This would probably require someone else as I doubt anyone would buy me an a manicurist :) John On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Kevin O'Malley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is making most, but not all people feel a sensation in their hand an > empirical effect? > ***Yes. > > Additionally some people feel some of my designs and not others. > ***Then you can go into Edisonian experimentation mode to find the design > that generates the most effect. > > But I guess making people feel it without any psychological component > removes the subjective aspect? > ***Absolutely. You use a double blind experiment where they pass their > hand through a completely inert "coil" and then through one of your coils > and they report what they feel. If the effect is real, it will show up as > happening on your own coil more than 90% of the time. > > Or the dramatic health effects? Of course any claim made in this direction > will have the charge that it is just a testimonial and not considered as > scientific evidence. Really that makes me sound like a snake oil salesman > so I often ignore it as evidence. > ***It's okay to act like a snake oil salesman for a while. Here's what > I'd do if I were in your shoes. I'd pay the $50 fee for setting up a booth > at the local farmer's market, set up that double blind study I mentioned, > and video record every person involved. And sell coils at the booth. Try > various claims to see if one or two in particular help sell better. It > would be a fun way to spend Saturdays. And you make money all the while > that you are investigating this anomaly. If the coil is small enough to be > implemented into a bracelet you could sell it as a "healing bracelet". > It's no more snake oil sales-like than those guys who claim to be > psychics. People who feel the effect will be inclined to buy bracelets. > There, now you're in the Saturday Jewelry business... >
