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Originally Posted by Interesting Ian  Sorry if I'm asking a daft question. I haven't really been following this dogs thing. But why is this an issue if the person is coming home at a random time? |
Ian..... just like some people see faces in wallpaper, some debunkers imagine flaws in Sheldrake dog experiments. The role of the psi experimenter is to jump through hoops testing any debunkers nitpick because the burden of proof is never on a debunkers counter claim. Why? Because debunkers say so!
The owner did not return at regular times during the Sheldrake experiments, however debunkers have now imagined irregular return times were not random enough + the owner wearing certain clothes in combination can (magically) explain the results.
The dog logger theory
It goes something like this ..... the debunker theorizes the dog has been logging owners average time away by what owner is wearing, carrying etc. For example it might be green shopping bag day which dog has logged as usually taking 120 minutes..... the dog pretends to sleep like a log for video camera but secretly counts time in heartbeats. Sneaky dog eh?
The owner doesn't return as normal after 120 minutes beause the experimenter hasn't told her to come home yet. And when told some time after 120 minutes the theory is that the dog from that point in time goes more and more to the window over time and that somehow explains the results ......it doesn't according to Sheldrake.
Still one must appease debunkers in experiments, if one doesn't, they tend to publish tenuous hypothetical flaws like confident factual explanations.