Clearly the only scientific conclusion to make is that there is less magic in the world then there used to be. In all seriousness though, having worked analyz

Clearly the only scientific conclusion to make is that there is less magic in the world then there used to be. In all seriousness though, having worked analyzing data in research, one overwhelming issue is that statisticians are often only involved in the analysis and not the experimental design resulting in studies that are plagued with noise and other confounding factors. It is hard to know how this would effect a study of ESP etc since even a batch of non randomly selected people who could reliably do this would be significant but non the less replication has failed.