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Originally Posted by Open Mind 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. |
So if Wiseman fails to get results and Schlitz succeeds, it's the experimenter effect. And if they both fail, it's the experimenter effect. And if they had both succeeded, it would be the experimenter effect. Tell me, what would falsify the experimenter effect?
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'.... 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
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This is like prayer studies. There is no way to control the experiments, so I'm thinking I shouldn't trust the results.
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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?
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Because the entire enterprise becomes unfalsifiable gobbledegook. There is not a single thing about it that we should not believe.
~~ Paul