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From: davet@oakhill.UUCP
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Subject: Re: More on ESP and the "feeling"
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Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 21:54:25 EDT
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In article <459@ho95b.UUCP> ran@ho95b.UUCP (RANeinast) writes:
>
>Let me relate something that happened to me.  I was driving down I80
>in Pennsylvania, and suddenly got the feeling that there was a radar
>trap ahead.  I slowed down, and voila', there was a cop just over the
>hill.  AHA!  ESP!
>

The trouble here is that even if you did statistically predict
radar ahead there is another explanation.

It's quite common to slow down somewhat when seeing a cop alongside the road.
Thus, the traffic coming the other direction could be giving
a very subtle clue which we sub(?)-conciously pick up making us feel that
something's up ahead.  This obviously would be reenforced over and over again.
(Subtle slowing of cars going the other direction - a minute later you pass
a cop [or car wreck or othe something which causes drivers to slow slightly.])

Therefore, even if "radar-guessing" was significantly demonstrated by an
individual the above explanation would be a likely reason for it.

I had a like thing happen to me at U. of Fla. where sometimes I just "knew"
when the computer was going to crash.  I think that probably I could hear
high frequency emanations from the disk drives and that certain patterns
would occur in the disk drive movements before certain types of crashes.

Dave Trissel  {seismo,ihnp4}!ut-sally!oakhill!davet