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Publication Date: 2006-Jul
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On Blowing Trumpets to the Tulips: To Prove or Not to Prove the Null Hypothesis--Comment on Bosch, Steinkamp, and Boller (2006)
Wilson, David B.; Shadish, William R.
Psychological Bulletin, v132 n4 p524-528 Jul 2006
The H. Bosch, F. Steinkamp, and E. Boller (see record 2006-08436-001) meta-analysis reaches mixed and cautious conclusions about the possibility of psychokinesis. The authors argue that, for both methodological and philosophical reasons, it is nearly impossible to draw any conclusions from this body of research. The authors do not agree that any significant effect at all, no matter how small, is fundamentally important (Bosch et al., 2006, p. 517), and they suggest that psychokinesis researchers focus either on producing larger effects or on specifying the conditions under which they would be willing to accept the null hypothesis.
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Meta Analysis, Psychological Studies, Effect Size, Experimental Psychology, Interrater Reliability, Criticism, Reader Response, Philosophy, Religion
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