There are a bunch of folks who'd like to shoot down Bem's article because of their anti-psychic position. That counter article is taking much the same attitude to it as when I first read about it. That is, given the fabulous methodology of just reversing the order of standard experiments, I figured that the main point Bem was aiming to make was to shoot down standard psychological analyses (and if support for parapsychology comes out from it, all the better). I mentioned the causality issue, and the counter article is mentioning p-values vs t-tests.

Unfortunately, reading the abstract of Bem's paper, it's clear that he's actually trying to show evidence for parapsychology, as opposed to making the parapsychology-or-standard-methods-are-broken argument. Unless my subtlety-dar is broken.


From this dude's home page: "Are Self-identified Bisexuals Just Lying to Us—or to Themselves?"

O_o indeed.