Talk:Psychic staring effect

Scopeaesthetia??
Can't find this anywhere. Is it spelled correctly? --EPadmirateur (talk) 06:19, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * its a little corny, but its from sheldrake's book, which got a fair amount of attention. Spencerk (talk) 23:15, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Believe it is spelled: Scopaesthesia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37‎ ‎24.68.75.92 (talk • contribs) 13:06, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

pov
This POV article omits negative results, which probably outnumber the positive results. Edison (talk) 21:02, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * ) i wrote it and don't believe it, so I suppose i was too fair. feel free to add negative results.Spencerk (talk) 23:15, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Last two paragraphs need rewrite
The second last paragraph is incomplete, because it omits Shermers main point: That the "psychic staring effect" couldn't be reproduced by skeptics, if proper randomization standards were applied, while parapsychologists could:

"Marilyn Schlitz--a believer in psychic phenomena--collaborated with Wiseman (a skeptic of psi) in replicating Sheldrake's research and discovered that when they did the staring Schlitz found statistically significant results, whereas Wiseman found chance results."

This is also Sheldrake's tactic: Simply provoking the impression that Shermer only criticized errors in the experiment's protocol. This is a strawman which he can easily refute by pointing towards (alleged) experiments with proper randomization etc.

The last paragraph has to be rewritten as well - the first sentence can only be understood if one has read Shermer's text, the rest is a single quote from Sheldrake's letter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.227.23.163 (talk) 12:00, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Overemphasis on Sheldrake
For some reason this article was rewritten to focus almost entirely on Sheldrake a few years ago, losing any detail of other researchers' experiments, including Titchener's 1898 investigation (and compelling explanation for what causes the effect). I've added a "history" section from Titchener's original source, and will look to see what else should be restored. --McGeddon (talk) 12:36, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Software codes of reality, life and language
The effect that is discussed is nowhere in the realm of current-day mental sciences. In fact they are on an entirely wrong track. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:D00A:EBD:34EC:487C:2BC:892 (talk) 08:42, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

report detecting
@User:Johnjosephpallas: Do you have any sources saying that the "Psychic staring effect" is a phenomenon in which humans report detecting being stared at by extrasensory means, as opposed to a supposed phenomenon in which humans detect being stared at by extrasensory means? --Hob Gadling (talk) 06:19, 26 October 2023 (UTC)


 * WP:FRIND sources refer to it as a claim:, and so should the encyclopedia, per FRINGE. - LuckyLouie (talk) 14:12, 26 October 2023 (UTC)