Courtesy of OrderoftheWhiteHand’s YouTube channel
Posted on Tuesday, 12:29, February 22, 2011, in Skeptical Videos and tagged Pseudoscience, Science, Steven Novella, Video. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
I'm a carbon-based bio-organism belonging to a particularly powerful and potentially self-destructive species native to a speck of dirt orbiting an average but temperamental yellow star in a backwater spiral arm of an insignificant galaxy.
Go figure.
I think I have to flag your statement "...no more me. Anywhere. ..." as being in error. You will sti
Thank YOU :-)
It really is neat. The thought that we are part of this infinite system of creation and destruction,
Thank you. I'll try to make the best of it :-)
I hope then that the summer brings you some benefit that would have been impossible while 'in learni
Very hard to follow, this statistical analysis stuff. All I can say is the critiques of Bem seem to be more persuasive than the responses to the critiques. That’s not saying I know who’s right.
My own reaction is that the tests for psi seem to be pretty piss-poor: lots and lots and lots of wrong answers but because hits seem marginally better than chance, it’s a positive? Come on. Run trails against chance but also set up control tests where the results are 100% — but subjects don’t know that — and see what happens.
Bayes is perfect for this type of thing. If the prior probability is small (part of the numerator) and the probability that the hypothesis is not true is giant (part of the denominator), you end up with an extremely minute posterior probability. In other words, when the thing being proposed is “probably not true” then this analysis gives an appropriately small chance of it being true.