On Daryl Bem's Feeling the Future Paper

Abstract

It has been argued by Daryl Bem in his 2011 paper that 8 out of 9 experiments yielded statistically significant results in favour of the psi effect. It is pointed out in this short communication that many of the results in the above mentioned paper could be explained by using well known concepts in statistics such as Confidence Level and Standard Error of the Sample Mean. This short communication also discusses implied confidence level and confidence intervals in polling results.