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Wiseman/Schlitz were not directly testing what I listed above. They would be indirectly testing it if they were testing whether the effect is stronger amongst friends in non-competitive environments compared to strangers in unfriendly environment.
To me this would be a better experiment in my opinion because if the friendly group beat the unfriendly group, this strongly hints telepathy did not evolve as competitive evolutionary brain function and again suggests the brain evolved to filter out telepathy of an external mind to develop individuality... which is what I am claiming.
The Wiseman/Schlitz experiment is still competitive, even if verbal communication is friendly. The fact is Wiseman, having nailed his reputation to psi being untrue, at least subconsciously wants Schiltz to fail. And Schiltz will be under a degree of pressure to succeed again.
'.... A person adversely affecting an experiment in extrasensory perception does not need to be physically present with the percipient. Schmeidler (1961a, 1961b) showed that the scores of percipients at card-guessing tended to be high or low according to whether an agent was wishing the percipient to succeed or to fail. Some experiments even suggest that unfavorable influences may not reach the level of an overt wish that a percipient would fail; much more subtle negative qualities may come into play (West and Fisk, 1953).....' Stevenson Quote:
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"Guess what results each gets?" Well, unfortunately, in the third round of experiments, neither of them got positive results.
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Latest score Schiltz 2 Wiseman 1?
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There must be some kind of meta-experimenter effect going on.
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Why not seriously consider it? If human performance and even medical drugs lose effectiveness due to lower mental belief, why do die-hard skeptics believe so firmly this cannot affect psi?
Edited to add ...even after correcting for selective reporting using trim and fill, the meta-analysis result of 33,357 'sense of being stared at' trials found an effect beyond coincidence of 10^46 to 1 (Source Radin - Entangled Minds) ..... many of those trials used school children, which I am predicting have slightly stronger telepathy that adults, however I predict both groups having weaker telepathy that children under 6