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Re: Global conciousness project
Some criticism here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_...usness_Project
Quote:
The methodology of the Global Consciousness Project has been questioned. Most of this criticism centers around how the data are selected and interpreted. It is important to recognize that spikes and fluctuations are to be expected in any random distribution of data. Especially troubling is that there is no set time frame for how close a spike has to be to a given event to find a correlation. For example, on September 11, it was alleged that spikes that occurred hours before the attacks were themselves caused by the attacks, bizarrely asserting backwards causality or subconscious mass precognition.
Another problem is that there is no objective criterion for determining whether or not an event is significant. Events are seemingly arbitrarily selected post-hoc, and only the data from that time period are observed. Data from other time periods are ignored, whether or not they may display similar fluctuations.
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Like I said, charlatans...
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