Parapsychology And Being Able To Read Other People's Minds

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a closer look will reveal that all the cited examples of scientifically approached experiments suffered from certain limitations. The SAIC experiments on anomalous mental phenomena have been acknowledged by a large body of respected scientists to be methodologically and statistically superior to the earlier SRI research as well as to previous parapsychological studies, since they avoided all the major flaws such as non-independent trials and the problems of multiple statistical testing that was characteristic of much of the previous work. But, as Dr. Hyman of the University of Oregon points out in his evaluation of the SAIC program, the results were nevertheless open to doubt as "The secrecy kept the program from benefiting from the checks and balances that comes from doing research in a public forum. Scrutiny by peers and replication in other laboratories would have accelerated the scientific contributions from the program. The multiple demands placed on the program meant that ...

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