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Re: Jelly Side Down :{{



At 11:19 AM 7/10/2003 -0700, Richard Hake, you wrote:


According to Paul Jennings (1963):

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[Convincing evidence for Resistentialism is] provided by the famous
Clark-Trimble experiments of 1935. /snip/ In the experiments which finally
confirmed him in this view, and which he demonstrated before the
Royal Society in London, Clark-Trimble arranged four hundred pieces
of carpet in ascending degrees of quality, from coarse matting to
priceless Chinese silk. Pieces of toast and marmalade, graded,
weighed, and measured, were then dropped on each piece of carpet, and
the marmalade-downwards incidence was statistically analysed. The
toast fell right-side-up every time on the cheap carpet, except when
the cheap carpet was screened from the rest (in which case the toast
didn't know that Clark-Trimble had other and better carpets), and it
fell marmalade-downwards every time on the Chinese silk. Most
remarkable of all, the marmalade-downwards incidence for the
intermediate grades was found to vary exactly with the quality of
carpet.
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As far as I know, the Clark-Trimble experiments have defied Newtonian
analysis.

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University


Let's all say together:

In matters psychological,
'tis important to be skeptical
if it seems to be non logical
Take a look at the whole protocol,
is it double, double, I say double,
not single, not differential,
[- a phantasm of the mind?]
not authoritarian or deferential,
but above all, double blind?

Bw jul 10 03

Brian Whatcott Altus OK