• Question: Is there such a thing as ESP?

    Asked by anon-188275 to Warren, Paul on 11 Nov 2018.
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      Paul Matusz answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      Hi William,

      I don’t think that extrasensory perception is currently recognised as a real science. There are many ways in which the results in experiments that found arguable evidence for it could be skewed – have a look at the discussion in the wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasensory_perception.

      In contrast, there are many phenomena that we know to influence our thinking are true that are quite hard to believe in – have a look for example at the list of cogntive biases prepared by Wikipedia editors – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases . It’s a truly fascinatiing read !

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