{"id":1551,"date":"2011-01-07T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2011-01-07T02:10:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T06:10:16","slug":"i-love-it-when-scientists-talk-dirty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2011\/01\/07\/i-love-it-when-scientists-talk-dirty\/","title":{"rendered":"I love it when scientists talk dirty&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and when they make loose with a few orders of magnitude.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.missouri.edu\/rouderj\">Rouder<\/a> and <a href=\"www.rug.nl\/staff\/r.d.morey\">Morey<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/pcl.missouri.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/rouder-morey.pdf\">critique<\/a> some recent work by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daryl_Bem\">Bem<\/a> on &#8220;Feeling for the Future&#8221;: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>[O]ur assessment is that Bem&#8217;s experiments, collectively, provide some evidence of psi phenomena, but not enough to sway the beliefs an appropriately skeptical reader&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;There is [a] surprising degree of evidence for the hypothesis that people can feel the future with emotionally-valenced nonerotic stimuli, with a Bayes factor of about 40.  Though this value is certainly noteworthy, it is several orders of magnitude lower than what is required to overcome appropriate skepticism of such implausible claims.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The framing of the questions and hypotheses here is most amusing, and worth a read.  <a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.missouri.edu\/rouderj\">Rouder&#8217;s face<\/a> sums up this whole debate.<\/p>\n<p>Hat-tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/cassandra-vieten\/esp-evidence_b_795366.html\">Cassandra Vieten<\/a> at HuPo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and when they make loose with a few orders of magnitude. Rouder and Morey critique some recent work by Bem on &#8220;Feeling for the Future&#8221;: &#8220;[O]ur assessment is that Bem&#8217;s experiments, collectively, provide some evidence of psi phenomena, but not enough to sway the beliefs an appropriately skeptical reader&#8230; &#8230;There is [a] surprising degree of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1657,210,207,211,213,215],"tags":[30770,30773,30771,30781,2597,14469,30775,30774,291,4497,30777],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogroll","category-chain-gang","category-indescribable","category-international","category-metrics","category-too-weird-for-fiction","tag-bayes","tag-bem","tag-division","tag-nonerotic-emotional-valence","tag-phenomenology","tag-psi","tag-psionics","tag-rouder","tag-science","tag-statistics","tag-vieten"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-p1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}