From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 11 17:53:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA15377 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 17:53:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.5.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA15370 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 17:53:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA24425; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 18:53:20 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd024413; Tue Nov 11 18:53:20 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA20048; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 18:53:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199711120153.SAA20048@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) To: don@PartsNow.com Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 01:53:16 +0000 (GMT) Cc: perhaps@yes.no, nate@mt.sri.com, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3468FAD1.49A8@PartsNow.com> from "Don Wilde" at Nov 11, 97 04:39:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As I remember, the prayer experiment was very well prepared. The > pray-ees didn't know they were being prayed for, and the pray-er's > didn't know who they were praying for, except a first name and a general > description of the problem. The groups were statistically equal, and > relatively large. If I remember [too many bosses whizzing past FTL, > Amancio], there were a total of 400 in the study. How can you seperate the telepathy theory from the God theory with this set up? The researchers should have lied about the names, or given only number, and/or not stated the symptom(s). They should also have put two guys named "John" with the same disease in the same room, and see if there was preferential healing of one "John", or if if there was 50% of the "prayer effect" split between the two... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.