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Originally Posted by Chris Noble  It is not about appeasing debunkers. You should be interested in whether dogs can accurately judge the passage of time. My experiences with animals such as dogs and cows is that they are very good at judging the time of day.
You should also be interested in whether dogs can pick up on subtle cues from their owners and other humans. Again my experience is that they can.
Sheldrake's experiments were not designed to find an explanation for the phenomena. They were designed to default to "morphic resonance". |
Well lots of experiments are 'tuned' to detect a specific effect - if present - that is normal scientific practice and does not in any way detract from the result.
Sheldrake and Alex want to look for a Ψ effect by designing the experiment - with random return times - to eliminate other, more prosaic explanations. To me this is no different from the normal practice of placing a sensitive optical experiment in an environment that damps down unwanted vibrations - the vibrations might have some intrinsic interest in themselves, but not in this particular experiment!
Has it occurred to you that if animal Ψ is a real effect, many other observations - such as the ones you refer to above - may need to be revisited.
David