> - Ambient human body temperature is a > constant source of noise as infrared > photons. Which are outside of the visible range, and wouldn't interfe

> - Ambient human body temperature is a > constant source of noise as infrared > photons. Which are outside of the visible range, and wouldn't interfere with the experiment, assuming they used visible range photons (the article doesn't mention this, but why would they not). > - A human might simply guess at sensations > and produce statistical anomalies that we > want to believe in. Isn't literally any study susceptible to this? Besides: "Still, participants were able to answer correctly more frequently than would be expected if they had guessed at random — and their confidence level was higher when they were right." suggests this wasn't an one-off anomaly. (Although N=3 nonetheles...) > - A guessing human might intuitively gain > an understanding of implicit tells in the > detection process, and notice cues from > the researchers, and interpret behavioral > signals to provide affirmative responses > to stimuli. I think the researchers might have heard of the double-blind method. > - How many photons can an individual simply > think into existence by willful thought? > Who's to say that the test subjects aren't > detecting psychic brain waves from the > researchers, by way of Vulcan mind melds > and subsequent "remote viewing" events? I might be missing a joke?