Re: MR Evidence

From: Bill Spight (bspight@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 23:42:45 BST

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From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net>
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    Dear Ted,

    > > Who knows what the feeling of confidence about guesses means? Even if
    > > you assume morphic resonance, why should you predict that?
    >
    > Because the real terms seem somehow familiar to us, so when we guess their
    > meaning, we're liable to feel more confident of being right.
    >

    Oh? And what evidence do we have for that? And if that is the
    explanation, why not have the words rated for familiarity?

    > > The second experiment is a good start. Once you have a set of fake
    > > Persian words that are as easy to duplicate as a set of real Persian
    > > words, then you test whether the real words are easier to learn. They
    > > should be, by morphic resonance, right?
    >
    > This is exactly what Pickering did.
    >

    Err, not as reported. He only investigated ease of duplication, he
    didn't control for it.

    Ciao,

    Bill

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