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From the article : "The sequencing of the pictures on these trials was randomly determined by a randomizing algorithm … and their left/right target positions we
by Fargren 16y ago
From the article :
"The sequencing of the pictures on these trials was randomly determined by a randomizing algorithm … and their left/right target positions were determined by an Araneus Alea I hardware-based random number generator."
At the very least they were using Araneus Alea wich is a hardware random number generator, so the numbers were not predictable. It's possible that the "randomizing algorithm" did something dumb and made the sequence not random, but I doubt it. I'm downloading the replication package to see if it has the source code. If it doesn't, that's a pretty big red flag for me.
I think that it's more likely thet the sudy was done so many times that it eventually gave significant results than it is that the sequence was not random. Or maybe prescience is real to some degree, or the study is a statistical glitch.
EDIT: the replication package doesn't have the source code for the progrma that randomizes the sequence.
- tokenadult 16y agoThank you for pointing to that statement from the article. I'm still pondering what scope that statement leaves for imbalance in the number of pictures of one kind or another during the trails with each experimental subject.