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   Message 89,036 of 90,437   
   Sylvia Else to David Dalton   
   Re: Testing ESP   
   26 Nov 21 15:53:43   
   
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   From: sylvia@email.invalid   
      
   On 26-Nov-21 3:43 pm, David Dalton wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Step 1. Find out whether it works. If it does...   
      
   Step 2. You won't get to step 2, so it doesn't matter.   
      
   Sylvia.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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