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On 30/09/2010 4:36 PM, Peter Bowditch wrote:

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> So you are saying that the first question is the real one and you win
> if you guess that the first question is the real one? Not very
> psychic.

Actually, he's saying that the questions are shuffled before he sees 
them. He then has to determine which was originally the first.

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>>>> It is NOT possible to cheat by guessing.  If you can beat 1,000,000:1 by selecting
>>>> the right idea that you are thinking of then it's a pass.
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>>>> Say you do a Zenner test and write down which card you're thinking of: a square.
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>>> Say I do a Zenner test where I look at a card instead of imagining
>>> one.
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>> God won't channel meaningless nonsense.
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> Must be a pretty pathetic god if it can't see what card I'm holding.

And the power seems pretty useless. But we skeptics don't get to dictate 
what form a power must take, nor that it must have a use.

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>>>> Then you show me 3 cards in random order, including the square.
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>>> Then I ask you to tell me which card I'm looking at.
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>>>> I pick square.  I'm right most of the time over dozens of trials.
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>>> You pick square and are marked wrong because it's a star.
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>>> The test is repeated the number of times agreed in the protocol and
>>> the results compared to your predicted accuracy.
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>> I can EASILY "guess" what question you posted on page one of a form
>> like that on MindReading.com 1/2 of the time.  (only 50% higher than expected)
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> Forget guessing. If God is supplying the answers then 100% is the
> benchmark.

However it appears that the channelled answers aren't at all clear (God 
only knows why) and Herc has to interpret them, which can introduce errors.

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>> I can probably "guess" the correct option 2 times out of 3.  (double expected).
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> So what?

Well, in a test where chance gives a 1 in 3 outcome, achieving 2 in 3 
over a sufficient number of trials would be significant.

Sylvia.