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- Created on: 24-05-16 13:23
1. Which of these was NOT an issue with Bem et al (2011)?
- Data peeking and file drawer problem
- All results near threshold
- Correlational measures
- 1 tail t-tests
- Unequal variances
- Eneven sample sizes
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2. Which of these is NOT a general flaw in PSI experiments?
- Multiple comparison
- Planned contrast statistical tests
- Post-hoc statistical tests
- Fraud
- Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
- File Drawer Problem
- Stopping criteria
3. What is ESP?
- Extrasensory perception
- Extraterrestrial percpetion
- Extrasomatic perception
- Ethicalpractice perception
4. Why was PEARs result highly significant?
- Significant was high because n was high, not because of a large effect. Effect driven by a few in thousand events.
- Although the result was significant, the experiment was done under uncontrolled conditions and so is not generalisable to the general population
- Significant was high because n was small, not because of a large effect. Effect driven by a few in thousand events.
- Experimentor bias manipulated the results to make the effect larger than it was
5. In the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR), why is RNG necessary for ESP work?
- To eliminate experimentor bias
- Because computers can only generate pseudo-random numbers
- Because the numbers need to be manipulable and controlled
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