Oscar_Cunningham comments on Study shows existence of psychic powers. - Less Wrong

3 Post author: bentarm 12 November 2010 01:46AM

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 12 November 2010 08:47:18AM *  3 points [-]

One experiment can't convince my of psi, the chance that they might have done the experiment badly in some way puts an upper bound on how much evidence it can provide. Only multiple independent verifications could do it, and even then I'd still feel massively confused.

His name is Bem by the way, as opposed to Bern (although I've seen that typo in multiple places).

Comment author: Jack 12 November 2010 10:37:54AM 1 point [-]

Great name for a parapsychologist.