Originally Posted by
JesseCuster
It's pretty clear to me that if he returns, the discussion is going to continue with him adding more and more confounding factors to the test until it becomes more and more unfeasible and it will never get done.
Kind of reminds me of Michel H and his interminable
"telepathy tests." The claim was simple enough, and the test designed around the claim, at least in principle, seemed sound enough. But it wasn't bad enough that he had no way to control for people who simply
guessed the correct answer (out of four) instead of "receiving" it; he then had to invent "credibility ratings," based on such things as a respondent's internet name or the tone with which they answered, so he could discard answers that didn't help his thesis.