Re: Telepathy: the story of a synchronization, explained

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From: BruceS
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:18

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On Mar 1, 3:26 pm, Graham Cooper <grahamcoop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > BruceS thinks that raising the PASS ODDS to 10^GOOGLEPLEX TO 1
> > > (a test he actually designed)
>
> > Haha!  You're being absurd again, Graham.  You didn't need to beat
> > anywhere near those odds to win money from me in a test I designed.
>
> well the first $5 was for only 10 trillion to 1 ODDS!
>
> the full $500 was a Googleplex to 1!!!!
>
> **********
>
> 2010 BRUCE LOSES PSYCHIC TEST
>
> BRUCE SPENDS 2 YEARS CARRYING ON
>
> "THOSE ODDS WERE TOOOOOOO SMALLLL!"
>
> ***
>
> THEN HE LIES THAT IT'S MY FAULT THAT NO POSITIVE TEST RESULT HAD BEEN
> REPLICATED!

You keep misrepresenting the situation, then whining about how it was
just too hard (iow, how it would take psychic powers) to win the
contest.  You didn't even try!  If you'd tried the test, and didn't do
well enough to win the minimum ($20, not $5), you *still* could have
had bragging rights if you'd done significantly better than chance.
But there's the problem: you know as well as we do that you would
*not* do significantly better than chance.  All your tests are built
on the premise that you'll do very slightly better than chance.  If
you had any psychic (or other magic) powers, you'd be more than
willing to do a test that wasn't so chance-based.

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