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Old 12-16-2007, 07:22 PM
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Paul C. Anagnostopoulos is offline
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Originally Posted by David Bailey
Well, as I said before, if you really want to refute something, you absolutely have to try hard to achieve the opposite! I suspect a lot of skeptics find that hard to stomach. People like Dean Radin can possibly help make a ? experiment work. If you bring them in, they won't upset the null hypothesis, but they will certainly make people like me take such an experiment more seriously.
I don't think skeptics have a problem with that, as long as the requests aren't ridiculous, such as when the experimenter effect comes into play.

~~ Paul
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