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In a note on 25 Feb, Romain Mollard asked whether we could
look at an event with importance in the spiritual world.
Also I would like to mention the work in the field of
consciousness of
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. A pioneer in the field of
meditation and yoga.
She just passed away last wednesday. Funerals are being held
between
today and sunday. She's world renomned, althought maybe not
a public
figure. I was wandering if it would have an effect on the GC.
I explained that the GCP network is a nonlocal
instrument, but it is best directed to specific moments in
time. Because there are so many potential sources of effect,
we need focused times ... if you know the hour of death, and
it turns out there is some special feature in the data at
that time, it can be argued that there is a correlation that
might be meaningful. Even then, we know that the complex of
influences make interpretation uncertain. But the narrower
our specification, the more appropriate is an interpretation
of specific correlation.
In any case, I did an exploratory analysis of the data on that day
beginning at 4 pm UTC, running to midnight. I don't know the
actual time of death, but there is a strong inflection at
about 6 or 7 pm, after which the data have a persistent
positive trend that is substantial.
It is important to keep in mind that we have only a tiny
statistical
effect, so that it is always hard to distinguish signal from
noise. This means that every "success" might be largely
driven by chance, and every "null" might include a real
signal overwhelmed by noise. In the long run, a real effect
can
be identified only by patiently accumulating replications of
similar analyses.
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