It's true that she kept dropping things from her "main" claim. She now seems to have dropped her '"main" claim' from her "main" claim. She has moved on to easily testable claims. She can mess around all she wants on her own with her current "induced information" idea, but any "study" or "test" she does with F.A.C.T. (or its members) or the IIG will probably yield honest results.
In her eyes she "did not fail a test." But she knows and acknowledges that she failed to do better than the controls in her study. In fact, she knows she came in 3rd out of 4. She continues her fight, but I think this has shaken her beliefs more than she (or we) recognize. Time will tell.
Also, note that she did a reading on someone at the F.A.C.T. meeting again this past week. She forgot to include the results of that reading.
I see a real battle brewing between the part of her brain that knows how science actually works and the part of her brain that wants to believe she has special powers. I think the science part of her brain had a small victory with the recent study. The other part is fighting back, but not very well. She should have gone on to something even more untestable than her vague health diagnosis claim. But she chose something that is easily testable instead---her induced information thing. This is the rational part of her brain pushing the other part toward something that can actually be tested.
I've been wrong before, but again, I remain an optimist.
Ward
I just don't see anything encouraging. She has not budged from her position one iota. Remember, she has failed tests before. She just keeps on going. Look at her website with the
new tests. She got 2 out of 10 correct in total darkness, which is obviously a failure. Do you know what her conclusion is?
I hesitate to conclude on only ten and ten trials, but it does seem that my acchievements would be significantly reduced due to darkness. So it would seem that light is necessary for better acchievement. Unfortunately I can't say whether I experienced or felt that it would be more difficult in darkness, I do however think that it felt different.
Light and/or vision is thus part of forming the perceptions.
In the face of complete and total failure, the biggest admission she can make is that
her abilities just don't seem to work in the dark. She also did a test with the lights on and failed that one as well. This is the woman who claimed 100% apparent accuracy before actually attempting any tests. She is not making any sense.
Let's
really think about this, okay? Sometimes we forget that she's not just guessing. If you or I were doing these tests, we'd be looking for whatever clues we could (sounds, body position, movement). Based on those
real perceptions we'd make an educated guess. Without any visual cues, such as in the dark, it would be a pure guess. We would
know that was
just a guess. Any successes would be attributed to knowingly picking up clues, random chance, or unconsciously picking up clues.
Anita is actually claiming to have perceptions that nobody in the world has. She says she is "sensing weight" somehow. A dowser at least has a
real physical response that is being misinterpreted. Her perceptions are all in her mind. She apparently believes what she perceives is real.
Anita very clearly seems to believe that the correct answers are due to her ability.
So what is the cause of the perceptions when she is wrong? It would be obvious to any reasonable person that
the perceptions are not real. The obvious conclusion is that her
correct answers are nothing more than
lucky guesses.
If Anita is not lying, then she is unable to differentiate reality from fantasy. She can't tell the difference between her "real ability" on her correct answers and whatever it is she perceives on her wrong answers. She is definitely creating these perceptions in her own mind out of thin air. I could understand a child believing she can "sense" things unseen, but she's 26 years old.
Remember, she's not claiming that she has no perceptions when she is wrong.
She thinks these tests are simply refining an ability she unshakably believes is real. She is trying to find a test she can bring to the IIG to take their paranormal challenge. No, there's nothing encouraging here. It's scary, actually.
(Hey, it was '68. Be glad that, at age 13, I wasn't suggesting that people could detect other dimensions while on LSD.)
