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From: utidj...@remarque.berkeley.edu (David M.V. Utidjian)
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,alt.paranormal
Subject: Re: definition of parapsychology
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Date: 21 Aug 91 19:47:42 GMT
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In article <4...@nosc.NOSC.MIL> wolfg...@rigel.nosc.mil (Lewis E. Wolfgang) writes:
>In article <1991Aug20.143656.7...@pmafire.inel.gov> rei...@pmafire.inel.gov (Steve Reiser) writes:
>>
>>You might say that those people have negative ESP, because many
>>unbelievers actually have negative results that are FAR less than
>>chance, indicating that there is the possibility that their minds can
>>successfully avoid teh correct answer.
>>
	This is very interesting....
By your wording in the above statement I have a few questions.

	Are these negative results that are "FAR less than chance",
greater in number or magnitude than the positive results?  If this
indicates, as you say, that they are successfully avoiding the
correct answer, then possibly they are lying?.  This might be taken
a bit further than this...  This could mean that the skeptics are
really "psychic", and don't want anyone to know.  Or maybe their
minds are not letting them know that they are "psychic".  Very
interesting...

	Were the people that got the extremely negative results known
or determined to be skeptics before or after the results were tallied?

-Dave-
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