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MRM #76
Posted by Cornell Insider Staff on November 21, 2010
- How to make your own Four Lokos. (HT to JPMITB). 
- Via MetaEzra, the NY Times profile of No. 1 ranked Cornell wrestling.
- Football loses to Penn in the season finale.
- No. 1 Wrestling wins, hockey drops two more, and basketball splits two games.
- Ben Scrivens gets his first AHL win.
- Professor Kintner passes away at 64.
- More details on the death of Cornell grad student Ryan Crowder.
- Cornell Professor’s precognition paper.
- Robert Frank on soaring executive pay.
- More on the Dream Act.
- Ithaca SWAT jumps into action on Aurora Street.
jdfarragut said
It is hard to read any of that precognition paper and not feel like social “science” is a complete joke. His possible explanations for the phenomenon (which was detected when subjects were asked to guess the position of erotic images, but not benign images), are:
1. Precognition or retroactive influence;
2. Clairvoyance/remote viewing;
3. Psychokinesis;
4. Artifactual correlation.
Paging Dr. Peter Venkman… I find choice number five most probable: psychology is not immune to poor statistical analysis and/or experimental design (and maybe dumb luck).
If this passes the smell test, what conclusion can’t be cooked up and published in a respected social science journal?
Although I could be wrong. There are some really strange phenomena in quantum physics which defied any possible conventional explanations and to me seem like magic.