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Volume 16: Number 4: Article 3
Commentary: Was There Evidence of Global Consciousness on September 11, 2001?
Jeffrey Scargle, Space Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center,
MS 245-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
This note critically reviews the methodology of the accompanying papers
by Roger Nelson and Dean Radin, emphasizing a key limiting feature of
the experimental procedure. I personally disagree with the former's
conclusion that anomalous effects have been unequivocally established.
The latter's paper, analyzing the same data, views its results as suggestions
to be tested using future data, which for reasons discussed below is
the only possible result of exploratory analysis. While I judge the
degree of cogency of all of the results in both papers as low, this
note is essentially a set of suggestions that I hope will encourage
both you, the Reader, to judge for yourself and the researchers in this
field to improve their methodology.
Keywords: statistical significance, cumulative distributions, exploratory
analysis
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Commentary: Was There Evidence of Global Consciousness on September 11, 2001?
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