http://groups.google.com/group/aus.tv/m ... 65fcd51543
"Peter Bowditch" <myfirstn...@ratbags.com> wrote in
I'm not the one making idiotic claims about possession of paranormal powers.
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Peter Bowditch wrote
>> (aus.tv deleted as per request from people with no interest in kooks)
>Now the ex president of Australian Skeptics Inc. is calling the paranormal prize applicants "kooks"???
The word fits most of them well.
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and many more of Peter calling claimed psychics KOOKS!
Here is Peter BOW-DITCH explaining why all paranormal claims that "GUESS"
are automatically discarded.
He also discards all paranormal claims that refer to the BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION
to work out how many trials are needed to break 1,000,000:1 ODDS.
>OK, let's simplify it further shall we?
>You think of a number from 1 to 100, write it down.
>I tell you 2 guesses, say 7 and 51.
>My claim is to 'guess' the number you were thinking of with 2 guesses, 50% of the time.
>Now what's your excuse, it's obviously paranormal and would take only a dozen trials
>to defeat 1,000,000:1 odds.
>VALID PARATEST - YES OR NO?
No.
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>Do you even know what the binomial distribution is Peter?
I do, but it has nothing to do with being paranormal.
"Peter Bowditch" <myfirstn...@ratbags.com> wrote in
> If you claim to be a guesser then you can do whatever you want
> but it won't be anything paranormal.
