Well, if you watch the video that Pokerman13 so gratiously first mentioned (link in my last post) you just need to know a little bit about statistics to see that his info is pretty solid.
Just know that a "P value" is the probability that the results are due to chance. If you flipped a coin 10 times and it landed heads everytime, there is a 0.5^10 chance that it was just due to luck. It's the same idea. If there is a p of 0.05, it means there's a 5% chance it was due to luck. (I know some stats major is going ot be upset with this explanation and I completely defer to you, but I figure it's at least in the spirit of a basic explanation) Of course, I'm sure the book is another story, but that little bit of info will be enough to get through the video.
You can just look at the experiments that he presents in his video and see that the p scores on them are really low. As long as his experiments are designed well (most skeptics will use this as their point of argument) then it is for all intents and purposes proof!
He has some really coole experiments about precognition or presentiment as he calls it in that video. People actually show a reaction to emotionally charged pictures before the picture is shown to them! ..Furthermore, the pictures are drawn randomly and this happens before even the computer has decided which image it will show to the person. That's pretty crazy!
I watched another video of his too, and he had a cool experiment where they placed random number generators running constantly in lots of cities around the world. They keep them on 24/7 and then when some globally significant event happens (defined as anything that a lot of people pay attention to) they look at the output of the RNGs(Ran Num Gens). Surprisingly (or not) they stop being random at times of global attention. Again very cool.  |