Dr. Peter Venkman is interested in testing whether psychics who claim to have clairvoyant powers actually do. Dr. Venkman believes that real psychics have special clairvoyant powers that non-psychics do not possess. 1a). If the “psychic” can predict the identity of these “psychics” possess clairvoyant powers that non-psychic people do not possess.1b) Looking at the fact sheet provided by John A. Thomas shows an experiment known as the Rhine experiment when Joseph Banks Rhine made the ESP cards for this experiment to test Clairvoyance in people and in his book Extra-Sensory Perception, he stated he found evidence of ESP. His experiment is much similar to the one Dr. Venkman wants to do. However other Psychologist couldn’t get the same results
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So it is possible to get results that support his hypothesis due to this reasoning.
In this experiment there are certain requirements that must be met. 2a).The participants need to be both male and female that are randomly selected and there would need to be an equal number of both male and female. It is important to randomly select the participants and have the same number of men and women participating in this experiment in order to eliminate any and all bias in the experiment. There will be two groups of 50. One group being the experimental group that are both acclaimed psychics both 25 men and 25 women. The other group the control group will be 25 men and 25 women who do not have psychic abilities. The best way to present the selection method would be via the survey method, where we ask if a person has been known to have psychic abilities and/ or receive info from an alleged psychic school and receive psychic talent from there that are both male and female. People who attend this school would therefore be certified psychics or if we use the survey method we ask if they have any certification for it. For the non-psychics it is a little easier to find because there’s a larger population for non-psychics than psychics. An extraneous variable in the selection method would be
So it is possible to get results that support his hypothesis due to this reasoning.
In this experiment there are certain requirements that must be met. 2a).The participants need to be both male and female that are randomly selected and there would need to be an equal number of both male and female. It is important to randomly select the participants and have the same number of men and women participating in this experiment in order to eliminate any and all bias in the experiment. There will be two groups of 50. One group being the experimental group that are both acclaimed psychics both 25 men and 25 women. The other group the control group will be 25 men and 25 women who do not have psychic abilities. The best way to present the selection method would be via the survey method, where we ask if a person has been known to have psychic abilities and/ or receive info from an alleged psychic school and receive psychic talent from there that are both male and female. People who attend this school would therefore be certified psychics or if we use the survey method we ask if they have any certification for it. For the non-psychics it is a little easier to find because there’s a larger population for non-psychics than psychics. An extraneous variable in the selection method would be