Paul:
1. better meaning somebody who seems to have achieved notable success, preferably professionally. Somebody like John Edward or maybe even our own Marcel Cairo. It sounds like Wiseman and O'Keeffe really did make a good faith effort to find solid mediums but it doesn't mean that there aren't better ones.
2. they would know who they were doing the reading for based on the number assigned to that sitter. The experimenter would just be like, "aight, now do a reading for sitter #1"
OM
1. chosing skeptical sitters who are the same age and gender sounds like a good idea to me. The sitters absolutely should not be involved in rating the accuracy of the readings, because that is too subjective. All the sitters should do is pick which of the readings is theirs. That way we rule out rater bias. |