Italian translation of The Conscious Universe
My books are now translated into Russian, French, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic and Italian. I like the cover of the new Italian translation because the "IM" in IMPOSSIBILI is fading away.
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An important bit is where Jimmy the host (sceptical, of course), holds the wire tight, and it turns in his hand. He is in absolute shock when he realises his divination is in line with that of the driller—and that the drilling truck is right above the underground stream they have located with divination.
What do you think about this negative meta-analysis on post-Bem?
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2001721
Michael.
One issue is that four of the seven reported studies were conducted online, which means that 83% of the data (2,739 of 3,289 subjects) was collected under conditions that were not like that reported by Bem. Of the three studies that were close replications of Bem's design, the combined z score would be 1.34 and in the direction of the hypothesis (p = 0.09 one-tailed). So from this perspective things are not so negative after all.
On their meta-analysis, they contacted the "National Society of Paranormal Investigation and Research" to look for replication attempts? Seriously?
The meta-analytic table is most interesting. There we see that lab-based studies, presumably the closest replications to Bem's design, resulted in an overall effect size 9 times larger than the online studies. The 95% confidence interval for the lab studies excluded chance.
So does this effect replicate or not? The jury is still out because until we get more studies based on Bem's original design, we won't know with high confidence one way or the other.
Michael.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/09/the-dark-side-of-the-placebo-effect-when-intense-belief-kills/245065/
I actually designed my own thought Experiment at age 17 before I became a Physician.I had a presentiment at age 21 about the word Quantum Zen.
As John Wheeler said there is something strange about Time.
Professor Cramer might be able to explain some of your findings through the Transactional Approach of Quantum Mechanics.All events being instantaneous emitter absorber interactions transcending Space time.That would also explain Backward Causation etc