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TIA - the New ESP Research (#1089)
Posted: 4/12/2003; 2:15 PM by Terry Frazier
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Bob Frankston on the value of statistics and more reasons to fear the DARPA TIA program.

TIA - the new ESP research?
[...] And I am afraid that the country is unable to understand that the so-called scientists (including Adm. Poindexter) who are leading this are about as clueless as the ESP researchers were, as to their biases, etc. Clever computer science, even powerful and correct computer science, will serve the same role in this process that the powerful statistical methods served in the Dr. Rhine's ESP research enterprise. The math was not wrong... but it helped create a delusion.
The result in the TIA case will be very dangerous pseudo-scientific bullshit, I suspect. Unfortunately it will be turned on us. I hope the computer science participants working on the data mining and inferencing tools don't expect a pass because they were "just following orders". [SATN]

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