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Perhaps one should also beware of the study by one man. I have a vague recollection of hearing that, at the time Turing was expressing his opinion of telepathy,
by mannykannot 4y ago
Perhaps one should also beware of the study by one man. I have a vague recollection of hearing that, at the time Turing was expressing his opinion of telepathy, there seemed to be experimental evidence for it, but it turned out that all the evidence came from one person, using unsound methods (including, IIRC, counting "one before" or "one after" guesses as successes if the results had higher than the expected frequency of one of those outcomes.)
Tentatively, that person may be Joseph Banks Rhine.
- googlryas 4y agoYes - I had to read into that part of Turing, since I had never previously come across his views on ESP, but it seems like his error was not that he believed the statistics to be more powerful than they were - but rather he was too credulous in believing there weren't charlatans intentionally fudging the stats in order to help their point. Basically - the stats were powerful, but they were just fake.