At death’s door
Apr 24, 2022
2 minutes
by Marc Wilson
For fun, every three years, I teach a fourth-year class called “The Psychology of Superstition”. I became interested in “fringe” beliefs (which a startling number of people endorse) because they’re a great vehicle for teaching the scientific method: how do you design a rigorous experiment to test for precognition (guessing things before they happen), for example?
Indeed, one of my students,
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