To: Mojave
Turing didn't say that there was "enough" to consider the possibility. He declared that the "statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming." And you keep dancing around his words.
Fine. How's this - the statistical evidence WAS thought to be overwhelming at that time. He wasn't the only person to think so and many people were conducting scientific testing on the basis of the same evidence.
Funnily enough - his own computational theories helped lead to computer developments that allowed number crunching on a scale sufficient to demonstrate that a lot of the evidence fell within statistical probability. Since then scientists have abandoned the field. Of course there are still people still insist that it happens but only within the parapsychology community.
To: TomOnTheRun
the statistical evidence WAS thought to be overwhelming at that time. He wasn't the only person to think so No names or source, naturally.
118 posted on
09/01/2009 8:39:12 AM PDT by
Mojave
(Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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