Is Most Published Research Wrong?
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In 2011 an article was published in the reputable "Journal of Personality andSocial Psychology". It was called "Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence forAnomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect" or, in other words,proof that people can see into the future. The paper reported on nineexperiments. In one, participants were shown two curtains on a computer screenand asked to predict which one had an image behind it, the other just covered ablank wall. Once the participant made their selection the computer randomlypositioned an image behind one of the curtains, then the selected curtain waspulled back to show either the image or the blank wallthe images were randomly selected from one of three categories: neutral, negati...
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In 2011 an article was published in the reputable "Journal of Personality andSocial Psychology". It was called "Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence forAnomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect" or, in other words,proof that people can see into the future. The paper reported on nineexperiments. In one, participants were shown two curtains on a computer screenand asked to predict which one had an image behind it, the other just covered ablank wall. Once the participant made their selection the computer randomlypositioned an image behind one of the curtains, then the selected curtain waspulled back to show either the image or the blank wallthe images were randomly selected from one of three categories: neutral, negati...
