What % of the American Association for the Advancement of Science consider ESP an established fact/likely possibility?
29%
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Who founded the Society for Psychical research?
Henry Sedgewick
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Who founded the Parapsychology Lab at Duke?
Rhine
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Who was the first group/experimentor to propose applying modern scientific methods to the study of psychic phenomena?
Society for Psychical research
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What was popular in the 70s and 80s in parapsychology?
Remote viewing, psychokinesis and Ganzfeld
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In the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR), why is RNG necessary for ESP work?
Because computers can only generate pseudo-random numbers
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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.
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What is a reason for paying more attention to EFFECT SIZES over p values?
Because small experimental biases can give rise to a high p if n is high, not a'real result'
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What is a reason for paying more attention to P VALUES over effect sizes?
If you have controlled your experiment even small effects are interesting
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What were the results from BEM et al 2011?
Across all 100 trials pps correctly identified future position of the *** images significantly more than chance, non*** was chance
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What is the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy?
A post hoc definition of success. Not defining predictions before the experiment
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What is the file drawer problem?
Bad data are not included in the study and people being reluctant to publish negative results/replications
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What is the issue with multiple comparisons?
If you do lots of tests on a single dataset/multiple studies some will be signif only by chance. e.g probability of getting a posi result x 13 experiments...likely that one will be significant
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Who was found guilty of fraud?
Stapel
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What % of predictions are used in cancer biology?
11-25%
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