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Originally Posted by alextsakiris  Exactly!... lotta over-thinking by dogmatic Skeptics.
This whole thing is really pretty simple |
I'm a little disappointed. I thought OpenSourceScience was about finding ways to design experiments both skeptics and proponents can agree about. Your idea of a "simple" approach apparently doesn't please the skeptics, at least not here on the forum, so I think you'll have to make some compromises. Why not test the method I suggested? Chris seems to agree that it is fair, and if the start of the waiting period corresponds to the start of the owner's return as much as you claim in the videos, then there shouldn't be a problem. If you furthermore divide the trial into large enough blocks, at say 20 minute intervals over a 4 hour period, there shouldn't be any problem at all with the kinds of noise we've been discussing here.