Sabrina Wu
7/9/15 Biology
Ability to Perceive Through Time
Biology Summer Assignment
Precognition is the gain of knowledge obtained through extrasensory means. The majority of precognitive experiences come from extrasensory perception (ESP), also known as the sixth sense. ESP uses methods such as card reading and dreams. It can also be experienced through trance, channeling, and mediumship. Trace and mediumship are forms of spirit communication. A person in trance condition is when a spirit communicator is speaking directly through the consciousness of the entranced, or the medium. “To the present day, no one has come up with a persuasive experimental design that can unambiguously distinguish between telepathy and clairvoyance....Based on …show more content…
Hefner, he explains, “... the majority of precognitive experiences happen within a forty-eight hour period prior to the future event, most often it is within twenty-four hours. In rare cases precognitive experiences occur months or even years before the actual event takes place.” A famous example involves an author who seemed to have predicted the fall of the Titanic 14 years earlier. The novel Futility, written in 1898 by U.S. writer Morgan Robertson, showed several uncanny similarities to the sinking of the Titanic. In the novel, the boat is described as the largest ship of its generation and was named the Titan. Both ships were described as “unsinkable,” and both met their end by hitting an iceberg and capsizing in April. Moreover, both ships carried the bare minimum number of lifeboats despite knowing there would be thousands of passengers abroad. These similarities were so eerily similar, many started calling Morgan Robertson a prescient …show more content…
All three experiments would follow the same procedures as those used by Bem, including using the same number of participants. The institutions must publish their finding without any alterations on their results. In all three publications in PLoS ONE, none of them produced the same results as Bem.
After the results were published, the public was shocked. Critics started to blame the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology for publishing the paper. Several people even started to pick out the faults in Bem’s experiment and paper as “evidence of flawed methodology and inappropriate statistical analyses” said in Christopher French’s article, “Precognition studies and the curse of the failed replications.” Professor Daryl Bem, in the end, has not shown any proof of any psychic
7/9/15 Biology
Ability to Perceive Through Time
Biology Summer Assignment
Precognition is the gain of knowledge obtained through extrasensory means. The majority of precognitive experiences come from extrasensory perception (ESP), also known as the sixth sense. ESP uses methods such as card reading and dreams. It can also be experienced through trance, channeling, and mediumship. Trace and mediumship are forms of spirit communication. A person in trance condition is when a spirit communicator is speaking directly through the consciousness of the entranced, or the medium. “To the present day, no one has come up with a persuasive experimental design that can unambiguously distinguish between telepathy and clairvoyance....Based on …show more content…
Hefner, he explains, “... the majority of precognitive experiences happen within a forty-eight hour period prior to the future event, most often it is within twenty-four hours. In rare cases precognitive experiences occur months or even years before the actual event takes place.” A famous example involves an author who seemed to have predicted the fall of the Titanic 14 years earlier. The novel Futility, written in 1898 by U.S. writer Morgan Robertson, showed several uncanny similarities to the sinking of the Titanic. In the novel, the boat is described as the largest ship of its generation and was named the Titan. Both ships were described as “unsinkable,” and both met their end by hitting an iceberg and capsizing in April. Moreover, both ships carried the bare minimum number of lifeboats despite knowing there would be thousands of passengers abroad. These similarities were so eerily similar, many started calling Morgan Robertson a prescient …show more content…
All three experiments would follow the same procedures as those used by Bem, including using the same number of participants. The institutions must publish their finding without any alterations on their results. In all three publications in PLoS ONE, none of them produced the same results as Bem.
After the results were published, the public was shocked. Critics started to blame the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology for publishing the paper. Several people even started to pick out the faults in Bem’s experiment and paper as “evidence of flawed methodology and inappropriate statistical analyses” said in Christopher French’s article, “Precognition studies and the curse of the failed replications.” Professor Daryl Bem, in the end, has not shown any proof of any psychic