Psychic ability does not really exist?

Research by three independent psychologists has just ruled out claims that true psychic abilities existed last year.

Earlier last year, honorary professor Dary Bem of Cornell University said he had spent the past decade doing experiments where he believed that psychic abilities really existed. This controversial study has just been rejected by three independent scientists.

Experiments of GS. Bem examines the ability of students to perceive some random events, such as detecting whether an image will light up on any corner of a computer screen.

Bem's research published in the Journal of Social Psychology and Personality, a prestigious psychological magazine, has angered many researchers, not only because Bem has sabotaged the scientific models ever. love, but also because his research has errors in data and methods, leading to inaccurate conclusions.

Evidence of human psychic abilities remains ambiguous and controversial.

Bem encouraged other scientists to repeat their experiments. Three scientists, including psychologist Stuart Ritchie of the University of Edinburgh (UK), Richard Wiseman of Hertfordshire University, and Christopher French of the University of London conducted three separate studies with college students to find evidence of extrasensory ability.

A discovery is considered to be true science when the experiment finds it repeatable by other scientists. If no other researcher can repeat the study and the same results, the discovery is not real. In Bem's experiment, volunteers were seen 48 words flashed on a computer screen. After that, he was given a memory test by retyping all the words on the screen they had just seen.

Then, a randomly chosen 24 words in 48 words are shown again. Participants continued some tests with these words. The experiment ended. After analyzing memory test results, Bem and colleagues concluded that students often recall the words they are about to see again rather than words that do not show up in the following test, like They can foresee the future.

However, three repeated studies by three psychologists all concluded: 'We found nothing'.

In other words, the words that a group of students look back on after taking the test do not improve the results.'Maybe the data in the initial experiment was only due to luck. Sometimes we see conflicting results , " Richie said.

In response to this conclusion, Bem argued that maybe three researchers, who did not believe in extrasensory ability, had unintentionally impacted on volunteers so that they did not show the ability to predict similarities. hybrid Thus, Wiseman proposed that all four researchers work together to replicate Bem's experiment and analyze the data together. However, a big problem is that the magazine that posted Bem's work refusing to post the research has the opposite result.

For many years, many scientists with different academic titles claim to have found reliable evidence of human psychic abilities. For example, psychology professor Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona (USA), found (to say exactly that he insists on) there is evidence of life in the afterlife in the series of experiments he performed at the end. 1990s. The book entitled 'Negative realms' published in 2002 is called 'groundbreaking scientific evidence for the negative realm' , even though until now evidence of spirituality and evil still extremely vague.