Re: Psi and Science Fiction

hal@finney.org
Thu, 5 Aug 1999 16:28:15 -0700

Damien writes:

> If that's an index of the extent of your research into psi, I'd urge
> you to take a glance at Utts' site
>
> http://www-stat.ucdavis.edu/users/utts/

My issue of Science News arrived this afternoon and reports on a new controversy regarding psi experiments. The latest meta-analysis (where multiple studies are combined to get more data) was not able to show a statistically significant effect, unlike an earlier meta-analysis. The controversy is now over which studies to include, which should not be included, why some studies show much higher results than others, etc. It is quite a mess.

Online at:
http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc99/7_31_99/fob4.htm

Hal