Independent re-analysis of alleged mind-matter interaction in double-slit experimental data.

ABSTRACT: A two year long experimental dataset in which authors of Radin, et al., 2016 claim to find evidence of mind-matter interaction is independently re-analyzed. In this experiment, participants are asked to periodically shift their attention towards or away from a double-slit optical apparatus. Shifts in fringe visibility of the interference pattern are monitored and tested against the common sense null hypothesis that such shifts should not correlate with the participant's attention state. We propose a deeper analysis of the dataset, identifying all the necessary arbitrary pre-analysis choices one needs to make, and carefully assessing the results' robustness regarding these choices. Results are twofold. Firstly, even with a conservative correction for the multiple statistical tests the analy

SUBMITTER: Tremblay N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6366771 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature