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Originally Posted by David Bailey  What irritates me is that an experiment like that (and particularly its conclusions) starts to fall apart as soon as you pick into it, yet it featured on the 8 AM news! Other experiments such as presentiment seem far more robust, but hardly anyone knows about them!
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It is rather amusing that you criticise others for supposedly rejecting results that contradict their beliefs but here you appear to be doing exactly that.
In these experiments the results allowed the experimenters to predict which button the participant was going to press before they knew they had made part or all of the decision with an accuracy of 60%.
You suggest that some presentiment experiments are more robust. I would be interested in seeing an accurate comparison. These are not the types of numbers that Radin is giving.
Can Radin predict which type of image is about to be presented from the galvanic skin resistance or whatever? It's one thing to be able to detect statistically significant differences (artefactual or real) between the two and for them to have any predictive value.
If you sample enough Americans and Australians you will probably find a highly statistically significant difference in height. This doesn't mean that you can use the height of an individual to predict their nationality with any accuracy and certainly not 60% of the time.