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Originally Posted by Chris Noble  The original claim from the dog's owner was that her parents could tell when she was returning from the behaviour of the dog. This is what Wiseman tested. |
Nonsense. Wiseman didn't ask them, he decided the arbitrary criteria of when the dog spends two minutes at window.
In fact in his 4th experiment the sister reportedly says on video that is how Jaytee behaves when Pam is coming home at the exact moment she started coming home. Wiseman dismissed it because it was not two minutes long, the dog reportedly had left window early to be sick.
With regard to the first 3 Wiseman experiments they were careless with the telepathy hypothesis .....
'In so far as the purpose of these experiments was test the possibility that Jaytee was capable of responding telepathically to PS's intentions to come home, the experimental design involved a serious flaw. Wiseman et al. assumed that PS, waiting with Smith in a pub or other location, would not think about returning until Smith told her to. In fact, she tells me that as time went on she could not help thinking about going home, with thoughts like "It won't be long now". In all three experiments conducted in PS's parents flat, the randomly-selected return times were in the second half of the experimental period, and PS knew that they would have to be leaving by the end of this period. Moreover, while they were waiting together, Smith knew when they would be setting off , and he could well have communicated his anticipation to PS unconsciously through subtle cues, such as glances at his watch. Hence the tendency of Jaytee to go to the window before PS set off (Figure 1) could have reflected her own anticipation that she would soon
be leaving.....
The part in bold is also another error in protocol