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Old 04-22-2008, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by davidsmith73 View Post
Hi Alex,

You probably know this already, but whatever you do, don't adopt Wiseman et al.'s (1999) criteria for a successful trial because it introduces a huge amount of noise that will suppresses a potential psi effect. Stick to using the proportion of time spent in the 'waiting spot' like Sheldrake's analysis.
produces noise???... it is noise! Why 2 minutes? Why not 3?Why not 1? It was a totally arbitrary cirtera completely removed from any consideration about what the experiment was about.

I think I'll write a blog entry on this just to get it off my chest!
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