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Showing posts with label JREF. Show all posts
4 October 2013

Lecture 10: Independent Replicability, Meta-analysis and Pseudo-Replicability

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The original ganfeld psi experiment (1974). The Hyman-Honorton debate (1985). Storm et al vs Hyman (2010). "Meta-analysis that conceals...
3 October 2013

Lecture 9: Scientists & Psychics: The Importance of Replicability

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Hasted et al on How to Test a Psychic (Uri Geller). Delanoy and the young metal bender. Attempting to do science without a disciplinary matr...
2 October 2013

Lecture 8: Personal Validation, Subjective Validation, and the Contribution of the Observer

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Crider revisted. Forer. The rules of the game. Why it works. A companion course guide can be downloaded here: http://jref.swmirror.com/207...
1 October 2013

Lecture 7: The Psychic Reading: How to Convince People that You Know All About Them

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Examples of readings: Alan Alda befuddled by reaction of a lady to a reading. Randi successfully re-enacts Forer's demonstration of the ...
30 September 2013

Lecture 6: Applications of the Framework

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Polarity Therapy. Crider: "The study of a character analyst." Additional applications. A companion course guide can be downloade...
29 September 2013

Lecture 5: The Framework: How, and When, to Override the Autonomous Mind.

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The Conditional: if,then thinking. Popper's failed ploy to banish inductive thinking from science. Theory, Hypothesis, Initial Condition...
28 September 2013

Lecture 4: "The Reality of ESP: A Physicists Proof of Psychic Abilities": The Vividness Problem

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"Other ways of knowing." Strength of belief vs. strength of proof. Prima facie evidence. Miracles. Scientific ability is domain de...
27 September 2013

Lecture 3: Perceptual and Cognitive Biases: Fast and Slow Thinking

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Reflective Mind/Algorithmic Mind/Autonomous Mind. The Cognitive Miser. Mindware Gaps. Contaminated Mindware. Finished Files. Assimilation /C...
26 September 2013

Lecture 2: How The Key Got Bent

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Student descriptions of the key bending event. Impossibility of describing everything. Observation has to be selective. Problem of relevance...
25 September 2013

Lecture 1: The Keys to Critical Thinking

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Uri Geller. The Geller Effect. Two students attempt to bend a key with their minds. The problem of unplanned observation. Eyewitness testimo...