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Re: HOW ABOUT THIS TEST PETER?

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From: |-|ercules
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 05:05
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"Sylvia Else" <sylvia@not.here.invalid> wrote ...
> On 3/10/2010 3:48 PM, |-|ercules wrote:
>> "Sylvia Else" <sylvia@not.here.invalid> wrote ...
>>> On 1/10/2010 3:56 PM, |-|ercules wrote:
>>>> "Sylvia Else" <sylvia@not.here.invalid> wrote
>>>>> On 1/10/2010 3:29 PM, |-|ercules wrote:
>>>>>> You write 3 Yes/No questions* each on a sheet of cardboard.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * You must want to find out the answer for the answers sake, not
>>>>>> purely
>>>>>> for test purposes. A genuine question that you might ask a friend, if
>>>>>> you have any.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You select one of the cards and hold it and concentrate on the
>>>>>> question written on the card.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You roll 3 10 sided dice and tell me the digits in order.
>>>>>> You roll 2 10 sided dice and tell me the digits in order.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You hand me the 3 cards shuffled and I will hand you the card with
>>>>>> your
>>>>>> question on it.
>>>>>> We video tape the whole thing to check which card you
>>>>>> were holding.
>>>>>
>>>>> And if you fail, you claim that the requirement marked with an
>>>>> asterisk wasn't complied with. If you succeed, you don't question it.
>>>>
>>>> I'm a happy winner, sore loser, got it!
>>>
>>> No - you're a cherry picker - which is much worse.
>>
>>
>> What? I'm not demanding a MISS be counted as a HIT or not tallied.
> 
> Yes you are. You've already demonstrated your willingness to wait until 
> after you've failed a trial before claiming that the question failed the 
> criterion. That's not tallying a miss.

That was the first trial and I pointed out an obvious dud question and
I never said it didn't count.

I've explained this 5 times.  If you continue to defame my honest magician
reputation then there is no way you will be accepted into the test population.



> 
>>
>> ALL the skeptics prizes refuse to publish paranormal applications, that's
>> evidently cherry picking.
> 
> JREF publishes applications. At best you know that they don't publish 
> any more of yours, but given your behaviour towards them, it's likely 
> they just throw them away as soon as they realise who it's from.


How many applications?  Some, all?  You just defined cherry picking.

You can't blame me for making a fuss AFTER they cherry pick me and
say it's now ok to cherry pick.


Herc 
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