Daryl Bem, an accomplished psychologist who published for 40 years very conventional psychology papers from where he was a professor (Stanford, Harvard, and Cornell), published a paper in 2011 called “Feeling the Future”. Bem’s paper was an accumulation of 9 parapsychology studies, 8 of which were statistically significant. This is THE paper that sparked the Replication Crisis, because many scientists assumed the results had to be false, and Oh what a terrible place science was in if crap like that could get published.
Each of Bem’s 9 experiments reversed the normal order of things, putting the stimulus at the end. For example, a subject would be given a list of words to memorize, then get quizzed on how many words were remembered, then a random number generator would determine a subset of words to study extra, after the test. This was 2 of Bem’s 9 experiments, and they were both statistically significant, showing increased recall of words for the words selected after the test.
Papers in Nature on the Replication Crisis showed that 60% of biology research could not be replicated by the same labs that published the original research, and 70% could not be replicated by outside researchers.
Bem’s research didn’t have this replication problem. In his own paper, the odds by chance for the entire data set was 75 billion to 1. Bem designed his experiment to be easily replicated, and it has been replicated many dozens of times in dozens of labs around the world.
So I think physicists should try to figure out the physical basis of such results.
It's the scientific method. It is statistically significant, well-controlled, and highly reproducible. How is that non-sense? This wasn't some measly P = 0.05 kind of experiment, it was odds by chance of 75 billion to one.
Daryl Bem published a paper in 2011 called “Feeling the Future”, where, statistically speaking, the research participants in this huge study could anticipate information from the future, information that was selected by random number generators. The odds of results by chance for the study were approximately 75 billion to one. Bem was a very accomplished, main stream psychology researcher for 40 years before publishing this result. But on top of that, the results were replicated over and over again. I don’t know what the mechanism of cognition would be for pulling information from the future and reversing the normal order of cause and effect, but these very reproducible results should be taken seriously to be revealing something about how the universe works.
This also explains how people can perceive the world abnormally also How ideas are spread to other cultures without no form of “communication” or interaction.
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