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- From: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Testing for "Auras"
- Message-ID: <1836@snap>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 10:21:31 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.203459.1603@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Jul20.220351.22409@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <schumach.711764568@convex.convex.com>
- Reply-To: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson)
- Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK
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- In article <schumach.711764568@convex.convex.com> schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:
- >In <1992Jul20.220351.22409@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog) writes:
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- [On testing by shuffling people behind a partition]
-
- >It requires care to come up with a barrier that is completely soundproof
- >too. Any faint scrapings or shufflings, etc., will easily give away
- >who moves where.
-
- Or you could just play (say) random noise to mask this.
-
- You might want to have a two stage test. The first stage would be
- designed to eliminate the obvious ways in which the psychic is fooling
- him/herself. The second stage would be set up more carefully to
- eliminate all possibility of cheating.
-
- Paul.
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