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| Written by Brian Walsh | |||
| Monday, 29 March 2010 22:08 | |||
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This week we were joined by Anita Ikonen, a paranormal claimant and burgeoning skeptic. On November 21st, 2009 The Independent Investigations Group tested Anita's claim to be able to determine the absence of a kidney in humans using possible paranormal powers.
Read more about the test here: http://www.iigwest.org/anitaikonen.html
And find out more about Anita here: http://www.visionfromfeeling.com/
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Andy - I saw that site before and during the recording of the show. I looks more to me like a site where it's all about personal insults of JREF moderators and Anita herself. Very little in there dealing with Critical Thinking.
It also totally fails to mention that during her tests at IIG out of three groups of 6 people she correctly choose the correct person twice and in one instance the correct side of missing kidney.
So she is hitting well above chance rate and is worthy of further investigations.
Mathamatically and forgetting the which side is the kidney on part of the test. 3 groups of 6 people. This is like guessing the powerball so the odds of guessing correctly are 1/216 - Anita correctly guessed 2 people, so like the way the odds in the powerball work this actually equates to a chance of 5/216 - another way of looking at this is that she had a 2.3% chance of even getting 2 out of the three groups correct.
It's only when you crunch the numbers do you realize how well she actually did. Does this mean she has this ability, of course not. People do win the Powerball. But as I said, worthy of a better investigation.