And the point is you do not understand the scales of relativity involved.
0.5% is not anywhere close to "small." If you want to hinge your entire case on the idea that psi is small enough to escape detection, then you need to have some kind of grasp on what you mean by "small."
Angstroms are small. I claim to be able to look at a surface and tell you that one side has an extra layer of molecules on it. That's small.
You originally asked how can Las Vegas be explained if PK/ESP were true.
Perhaps this is the problem: you did not understand my question.
What I asked (and am asking) is this: how can you explain that Las Vegas has not uncovered psi, given that they are highly motivated to do so? Furthermore, that they are better funded and have access to more test subjects than every other psi experiement in the history of the world
put together.
Whether the effects would be noticed is an issue we are trying to resolve.
Whether Las Vegas is capable of accounting for their money would seem to be an issue that does not require "resolving."
We both seem to have little facts on this matter.
The only person who lacks facts is you. I have presented many, many facts, of common and easily verifiable nature. You, on the other hand, do not understand how corporations work.
Thats the trouble with the gambling industry having a tight control over their financial information.
Either you are being deliberatly obtuse, or you are not bothering to read my posts. I gave you a link to the people who routinely audit the gambling industry's financial information.
Again, your argument relies on the ignorance and incompetence of professionals. You seem to assume that if you don't know something, no one does. You project your complete innocence of facts onto everyone. Trust me when I say that this projection of your own incompetence onto people who have been working in an specific industry for decades is likely to found insulting.
I'm not willing to rule out the possibility that they either simply don't see it or attribute it to other sources.
More to the point, you're perfectly willing to
rule it in.
Do you see the problem here? You are not trying to explain how psi can exist, you are engaged in a desperate hunt to find any shred of uncertainity for it to hide in.
This means that our PK/ESP effect has not had the chance to influence the machines when they leave the factory.
I presented a plausible explanation of how psi could affect machines being tested by other machines. All it requires is a violation of time and space - but then, all psi requires that anyway. On what grounds did you reject my time-traveling claim?
Before you answer, think very carefully. Are those grounds the same ones I am using to reject your theory of psi altogether?
You are more than willing to rule out an obvious silly claim becuase it is obviously silly... yet you expect us to take your other silly claims seriously. Why?
Perhaps the answer is that you don't realize that psi is obviously as silly as time-travel. That would explain a lot, and be consistent with your general lack of knoweldge of how things work.
In other words, you only accept psi because you don't understand physics or psi. By carefully refusing to focus on the possible mechanisms, and only looking at a few studies, you can pretend to beleive in an effect without ever actually describing what that effect is or how it could possibly work.
This is important because the variance in payout percentage of slot machines would be expected to get smaller the longer period over which you look at the data. If they looked at daily payout percentages, the variance would be quite large.
Once again, you assume casino owners are idiots. And you demonstrate your failure to understand the basics of this industry.
I assure you, somewhere in the State law that requires slot machines to maintain a given payout ratio is a rule on how often that ratio has to be checked. And since I assume the people doing this are not idiots, I assume they picked a time period that yields accurate results, based on their 50 years of experience.
If you were a casino operator, would you be able to be able to tell if any of these deviations from manufacturers stated payout percentage was due to a small PK/ESP effect?
Are you assuming that psi could affect variance on certain days, without affecting the overall total variance? I hope not.
As for whether the 1% variance is explainable by psychics, the answer is yes, unless you think some psychics go to the casino and
lose on purpose. This is the point: the psi effect is one-sided. Ergo, even in a random level of noise of 1% you can still detect smaller than 1% influence, because you know which direction it is supposed to go.
So if a machine is supposed to pay out 15%, it has an error bar of 1%, and psi is a .01% effect, then a normal machine pays out 14-16% and a paranormal machine pays out 14.01-16.01%
What results are you refering to?
The results that show that people who claim to be able to psychically predict/affect things cannot do so.
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