A New Approach To Psychical Research | Parapsychology has failed to gain general scientific acceptance even for its improved methods and claimed successes, and it is still treated with a lopsided ambivalence among the scientific community |
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; Levitt, Norman; Lewis, Martin W |
Catriona Barrett, , University of Southampton | |
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The essential problem is that a large portion of the scientific community, including most research psychologists, regards parapsychology as a pseudoscience, due largely to its failure to move beyond null results in the way science usually does | Until they can do that, their claims will continue to be held suspect by a large body of scientists |
Second, there were five different symbols in the target series, but the experimental record showed that two of these arose more frequently than the other three.
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