Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.14 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!liberte From: liberte@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sci Subject: Re: my experiences with PSI - (nf) Message-ID: <97400001@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 03:30:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.97400001 Posted: Tue Aug 21 03:30:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 01:33:36 EDT References: <363@aquila.UUCP> Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:aquila:-36300:uiucdcs:97400001:000:660 Nf-From: uiucdcs!liberte Aug 21 02:30:00 1984 #R:aquila:-36300:uiucdcs:97400001:000:660 uiucdcs!liberte Aug 21 02:30:00 1984 There is a classic experiment in PSI research that compares the scores of believers of PSI (sheep) with that of disbelievers (goats). The classic result is that sheep tend to score above chance and goats tend to score below chance. Both results are improbable. If added together, they tend to cancel each other out. I would be interested in doing an experiment of this form on the net. We would need a trustworthy skeptic, a program to automatically score the mailed in responses and a site to run it on. Daniel LaLiberte (ihnp4!uiucdcs!liberte) U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science {all absolutes are false -- including this one}