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Article #4982Re: HOW ABOUT THIS TEST PETER?
From: |-|ercules
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 05:05
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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