Results conundrum

I note that the Watt study was not pre-registered in the KPU registry. This may be because the study was done earlier than the start of the registry. There is a sleep lab dream study by Watt in the registry. It did not return significant results and was excluded from the meta-analysis, though.

Linda

I note that the Watt study was not pre-registered in the KPU registry. This may be because the study was done earlier than the start of the registry. There is a sleep lab dream study by Watt in the registry. It did not return significant results and was excluded from the meta-analysis, though.

Linda

I guess that must be the study Watt's presented at the SPR conference in Wales, where we got to see more details of the study than one would in a written paper. Small, very short study, which only included a handful of people who were considered to have some psychic abilities IIRC. The example she presented of her selected video target didn't appear to impress the delegates much though - little in the way of strong feelings. I remember her getting a bit angry when the targets were criticised by some delegates as being too weak.

One of the delegates asked if she had actually recorded any precognitive hits from the study, and she freely admitted she had, a perfect hit from one subject, just not of any of the target video's, so it couldn't be included in her study. Interesting never-the-less.

http://www.koestler-parapsychology.psy.e...ummary.pdf

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/im...5/art00008

Linda

http://www.koestler-parapsychology.psy.e...ummary.pdf

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/im...5/art00008

Linda

Look's like it, but no way of knowing, as I can't get the full paper, seems the publishers have raised their game in the last couple of weeks to frustrate sci-hub.

I think feedback could be very useful, but it should be made clear that those who drop out after receiving feedback would be scored as failures in the final assessment.

Ideally, I guess, feedback would be given in a training phase, but then removed for the actual data collection.

My feeling is that many things in life require training - a child does not (usually) get on a bike and figure out how to ride it without assistance - at least of the passive variety - watching others. Training people to perform ψ is probably essential.

David