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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  This can be said of any sort of experiment. Unfortunately, if we take it seriously, we will spend all our time and money chasing ephemera. |
As Dean Radin points out, normal science often uses statistical results with smaller effect sizes than those typically reported in Ψ experiments. It would make eminent sense to expend some time and money exploring fringe phenomena. The expense is tiny and the potential gain enormous. Vast numbers of conentional experiments must be performed each day which fail to lead to a conclusive result for one reason or another.
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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Most parapsychologists don't use any sort of brain analysis equipment, so they are making this distinction already. What good would it do them, exactly?
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I would have thought this was obvious. The essential gain is that you get a lot more data which can potentially build statistical significance faster. Automated measurements possibly also help by reducing the boredome of the experiments. Think of the presentiment experiment experiment (I don't know if you count skin conductance measurements as brain analysis, but the fMRI versions of this experiment must surely count) or the telepathy tests that have used EEG measurements to look for correlations.
David