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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Nov 26, 2021, Corey White wrote on alt.magick   
   (in article<9d1856f5-305f-4448-b8ab-d70410269ad5n@googlegroups.com>):   
      
   > To test psychic ability researchers have created experiments to   
   > see if they could predict randomness. So far these experiments   
   > haven't been fully accepted.   
   >   
   > I have a new way of doing this kind of experiment that may   
   > actually work. The experiment connects the psychic to the   
   > data. Instead of flipping a coin in another room and asking   
   > the test subject to guess which side it lands on, we put the   
   > coin in the subjects hand and let them flip it!   
   >   
   > A more controlled test uses a computer. To do this the   
   > psychic holds down a button that would cycle through   
   > colors, shapes, or numbers. They would attempt to   
   > release the button so that it would stop on their   
   > desired result.   
   >   
   > You don't expect 100% with this experiment of course,   
   > and to see the results you wouldn't use lottery numbers   
   > either.   
   >   
   > Why does this work? I think it has something to do with   
   > the metaphysical concept of sympathetic links.   
      
   You might want to post this to sci.skeptic . I am crossposting   
   this to there and other groups, with Followup-To set back   
   to alt.magick , but I think Bob Casanova, the main skeptic   
   on sci.skeptic, may have me killfiled and may not see this.   
      
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   always remembers what it was his Mama said” (Ron Hynes)   
      
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