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Originally Posted by John Freestone  Nope.
Yep. I meant what I said. Maybe google 'file drawer effect'. |
Even if you make 1.000.000 tests of persons who claim to be psychic and none of them actually is psychic you still have no evidence for the theory that no psychics exist.
It's a big error to confuse the two things.
For millenia people in the western world only observed white Swans. They even used "Seeing a black Swan" similar to we use "When pigs fly" today.
Once Australia got discovered people finally saw Black Swans and the theory that there every Swan is white got refuted.
Lack of evidence for a theory "there are black Swans" is qualitivly different from evidence for the opposite "there are no black Swans". I took the Black Swan example from
Nassim Taleb. If you want to learn more about the real world implications of it I highly recommand his talk.
Similarly lack of evidence for the theory "there are psychics" is qualitivly different from evidence for the opposite "there are no psychics".
If you come to your conclusion based on faulty reasoning that's pseudoscience.