From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 11 16:46:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA08739 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 16:46:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA08727 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 16:46:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA27446; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 00:45:59 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id BAA23554; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 01:45:47 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971112014546.43531@bitbox.follo.net> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 01:45:46 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: don@PartsNow.com Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) References: <199711110620.XAA15169@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199711110645.XAA02334@usr03.primenet.com> <199711111652.JAA16566@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199711111836.TAA22576@bitbox.follo.net> <199711111935.MAA17390@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199711112339.AAA23291@bitbox.follo.net> <3468FAD1.49A8@PartsNow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69e In-Reply-To: <3468FAD1.49A8@PartsNow.com>; from Don Wilde on Tue, Nov 11, 1997 at 04:39:45PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Nov 11, 1997 at 04:39:45PM -0800, Don Wilde wrote: > 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. Do you remember who conducted it, or at least their general affliction? Size of population group for those praying and being prayed for? Were they in the same group, or so spread out it shouldn't be statistically significant contact between them? Were the study double-blind? Eivind, considering this fairly interesting.