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Alan Boyle writes:Scientists are buzzing over a peer-reviewed study that suggests humans have predictive powers, but it’s too early to predict whether or not the research will hold up.
The 61-page paper, titled "Feeling the Future," was written by Cornell psychology professor emeritus Daryl Bem and is due for publication in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Bem says his experiments support the idea that there really is something to human precognition of events that haven't yet occurred.
These experiments led Bem to conclude that there's a slight but statistically significant precognition effect, particularly if the person making the prediction is a stimulus-seeking extrovert. Such "stimulus-seekers" recorded a slightly higher success rate on Bem's tests
Bem acknowledged that a 51.7 to 53 percent success rate might seem very close to what would be expected by chance. "But that's about the edge that a casino has over you, and guess what? They're still in business," he said. "We don't ignore things just because they're 53 percent."
Bem told me --
'it's "absurd" that he should be expected to come up with a theory to explain his data' -- .
He just knows that the data indicate there's a slight, subtle but statistically solid phenomenon worthy of further investigation.
"The odds against its just being chance are actually 7 billion to 1," Bem said. "In any experiment like this, critics are permitted to come up with alternatives to explain the results of the experiment, and some of those explanations are non-psi. That's fair game. But one thing we're sure of is that these results aren't due to chance."
I am not only bothered by the lack of a positive theory, but also by the contradictions between psi and ordinary scientific assumptions," he wrote in a Psychology Today blog posting. Precognition appears to run counter to the conventional view that causes precede their effects, he said. (Which reminds me to check in on the status of experiments in quantum retrocausality
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See -->http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19712-is-this-evidence-that-we-can-see-the-future.html
Alan Boyle writes:Scientists are buzzing over a peer-reviewed study that suggests humans have predictive powers, but it’s too early to predict whether or not the research will hold up.
The 61-page paper, titled "Feeling the Future," was written by Cornell psychology professor emeritus Daryl Bem and is due for publication in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Bem says his experiments support the idea that there really is something to human precognition of events that haven't yet occurred.
These experiments led Bem to conclude that there's a slight but statistically significant precognition effect, particularly if the person making the prediction is a stimulus-seeking extrovert. Such "stimulus-seekers" recorded a slightly higher success rate on Bem's tests
Bem acknowledged that a 51.7 to 53 percent success rate might seem very close to what would be expected by chance. "But that's about the edge that a casino has over you, and guess what? They're still in business," he said. "We don't ignore things just because they're 53 percent."
Bem told me --
'it's "absurd" that he should be expected to come up with a theory to explain his data' -- .
He just knows that the data indicate there's a slight, subtle but statistically solid phenomenon worthy of further investigation.
"The odds against its just being chance are actually 7 billion to 1," Bem said. "In any experiment like this, critics are permitted to come up with alternatives to explain the results of the experiment, and some of those explanations are non-psi. That's fair game. But one thing we're sure of is that these results aren't due to chance."
I am not only bothered by the lack of a positive theory, but also by the contradictions between psi and ordinary scientific assumptions," he wrote in a Psychology Today blog posting. Precognition appears to run counter to the conventional view that causes precede their effects, he said. (Which reminds me to check in on the status of experiments in quantum retrocausality
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See -->http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19712-is-this-evidence-that-we-can-see-the-future.html
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