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From: king@Kestrel.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: precognition v. telekinesis
Message-ID: <334@sri-arpa.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 15:53:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 28 15:53:00 1985
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To distinguish the two, we must make sure that all experimental
subjects are unconcious during the generation of the random numbers.
If we don't, and with hackers' hours there is little chance of finding
such a time, apparent precognition could be the result of TK.

The appropriate significance level should be the N'th root of 0.95,
where N is the number of participants.  This last objection is one I
take seriously, and as far as I can see it is uniformly not followed by
parapsychology workers.