"How strong do they need to be? That bring us to their most philosophical point: They say the experiments were "exploratory" work, where the researchers didn't define what they were looking for or how they would know they'd found. In the experiment with the erotic pictures, Bem, they write, "tested not just erotic pictures, but also neutral pictures, negative pictures, positive pictures, and pictures that were romantic but non-erotic. Only the erotic pictures showed any evidence for precognition." That's an exploratory experiment, or, as they call it, "a fishing expedition." Lemuel Moyé calls it "data dredging.""
Saturday, December 4, 2010
The Paranormal Powers of Erotica!
Elegant writing, but if ever there is a justification to go WTF!, this is it- you already knew erotica turned you on, but even your paranormal powers perk up, you knew that?-
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