Richard Wiseman’s Twitter remote viewing experiment, part 2.
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It’s Almost Like ESP, Day 2
Posted in general science, psychology, tagged parapsychology, remote viewing, richard wiseman, twitter on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Almost Like ESP
Posted in general science, psychology, technology, tagged esp, parapsychology, psi, psychology, remote viewing, richard wiseman, twitter on June 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A look at Richard Wiseman’s experiment using Twitter to test remote viewing.
Statistics
Posted in general science, psychology on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(from xkcd)
The Death of Long Term Memory
Posted in psychology, technology on January 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »
This fascinating article at Scientific American, about human and animal consciousness, contains the following passage: In humans, the short-term storage of symbolic information—as when you enter an acquaintance’s phone number into your iPhone’s memory—is associated with conscious processing. A few years ago, when I was first learning about memory, the example probably would have gone [...]
Minor Issues
Posted in general science, media, psychology, tagged minor chords, music, sad songs on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking about music a lot lately. Yesterday, I had a conversation about why certain chords tend to “sound good” together. It seems like a lot of it has to do with the physical layout of an instrument; certain chords are easier to play together on a guitar. Since most rock music is based [...]
You Don’t Write on Your Own Facebook Wall
Posted in media, psychology, technology, tagged facebook, taboos, wall on August 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A peculiar fact about Facebook is that you are not supposed to write on your own wall. Because that really could have gone either way, eh? With blogs, conversations take place on a single blog, often with the blog’s owner commenting on his or her own blog. It has the advantage of the entire conversation [...]
The Psychology of Ice Cream
Posted in general science, psychology, tagged food, ice cream, learning, psychology, reinforcement, variable ratio on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the psychological study of learning, there has been a lot of research on how to reinforce behaviours. Of particular interest is the timing of rewards. If you want someone to keep doing something, do you reward them every time they do it? Or do you reward them only some of the time? Well, it [...]
Halifax
Posted in pictures, psychology, real life, tagged cpa, halifax, nova scotia on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My last major stop on my trip was Halifax, where I presented research at the Canadian Psychological Association convention. The poster was about my research on the relationship between geomagnetic activity and creativity. Basically I found that when the earth’s magnetic field is disturbed by funky stuff going down on the sun, people are more [...]
Beer : Statistics :: Peas : Carrots
Posted in general science, psychology, real life, tagged beer, psychology, statistics on April 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I once got slightly intoxicated while “studying” the night before a major exam in statistics. Normally this would not be something to be proud of, but the fact is, despite the morning headache, my mind was clear of distractions and all that wonderful statistical knowledge flowed onto the paper just as smoothly as the beer [...]
Get Smart
Posted in general science, psychology on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wired Magazine has just put up a set of articles on the topic of intelligence: Get Smarter: 12 Hacks That Will Amp Up Your Brainpower. It’s partly just a movie promotion (for the Steve Carell remake of Get Smart. Get it?), and a lot of it is oversimplified or just plain wrong, but there is [...]
