Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  You appear to believe that you understand how the experimenter effect works. But little do you know that one skeptic can easily counteract a dozen believers. This is because the believers' vibes are weak.
Mwahahaha!
~~ Paul |
I don't know how it works ...) however...
Here is a curious comment made by Kramer in 2005 (Kramer was Randi's $1million challenge assistant back then) Quote:
Posted by KRAMER 11th March 2005, 09:13 AM
'....Sorry but I cannot answer many of these questions, such as "Who performed best at testing". I've only been here a year, and answering a question such as this would take weeks of research deep into the files.
However, my understanding is that most applicants fail rather gloriously, performing far below CHANCE. According to everything I have been told, no one has performed well, or demonstrated anything that even came close to warranting further inquiry.
Can we get a Challenge historical wrapup/tally? [Archive] - JREF Forum |
Below chance? Odd comment, if true, suggests to me some sort of paranormal experimenter effect?
However not to a die-hard skeptic of paranormal claims, they must assume, if below chance, it is more plausible to the JREF experimenters were assisting a negative outcome by more normal means, rather too well
Another reason to police the psi policemen? i.e. have open minded skeptics check what the die-hard skeptics are actually doing?
Why has JREF never published the test results for external analysis? (If anyone knows different, point me to a link)