The Myth of the Decline Effect in Psi Research: The Empirical Evidence
Patrizio Tressoldi,
Lance Storm
Abstract:The decline effect (DE) has been discussed in “psi” research since the early times of experimental investigations, and many causes have been advanced from individual psychology, social attitudes, electromagnetic fields, experimental artifacts, or physical properties often related to quantum physics. Bierman (2001) found small and statistically significant decline slopes in all experimental protocols, but the mind-matter interaction with random number generators, where he found a positive quadratic polynomial s… Show more
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