On 4 juin, 11:22, Bryan Olson <fakeaddr...@nowhere.org> wrote:
blondie101...@hotmail.com wrote:
I'm currently design a research project to confirm or infirm the
theory that thoughts can influence random operations.
That's not what your web site says the purpose is.
Let's face it, people that emit an hypothesis usually believe it will
check out in the end result. This doesn't stop them from taking a
very strict scientific and statistical approach.
Also since my hypothesis entertains the fact that an aptitude is in
place, practice needs to be encouraged in any way possible before
running the sampling.
For this reason
I've built a website that contains to RNG (random number generator)
games to allow testing of the hypothesis.
There's already a good on-line experiment testing exactly that:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/
It is indeed fairly good but has a major flaw in the way the data gets
analysed that reduces the appearance of the effect in the global
results.
So if you want to prove the existence of the phenomena, just go to
http://www.psi.juzaz.com.
I'd recommend people interested in testing this phenomenon go
the the RetroPsychoKinesis Project instead. It's really a vastly
better experiment. They document their random number generators.
They make the code available, so the conditions are known and
repeatable. Their system automatically reports the data.
And of course if you're a skeptic, just do the same, the most data we
get, the better will be the interpretation!
Why no automatic reporting of the data?
How often do you see a serious scientific experiment giving out
results before the sampling is over?
In conclusion I wish to add something I've said elsewhere: The site
does not contain the research project, report, data or anything like
that YET so don't expect to find it's methodology. It will come once
the sampling has been done following a strict methodology and the
analysis is complete. And don't worry, results will be reproduceable
(pre-analysis of the initial results is under way and very conclusive
so far, yet you couldn't know that even if you had all the data
because you don't know it yet).
Hope that clarifies a bit! All that's important right now is for
people to go play on it.
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