Mr. Hamilton, is there a published data set of dome numbers since the
construction of the domes?
It would be nice to see. I am not disputing the possibility there is the stated
effect, but that there are other correlations that are just as plausible such
as safer cars.
The promotional PDF states, "For example, the reduction in motor vehicle
fatality rates could not be explained by the total number of vehicle miles
traveled, weather patterns, the proportion of young drivers, improved vehicle
safety features, improved roadway conditions, or alcohol consumption."
But the promotional document gives no indication how those conclusions were
arrived at. The paper needs to disprove these alternative explanations, not
just dismiss them. Maybe they are in the full paper?
The federal government seems to think auto safety features are the reason for
the fatality decline, which is the most plausible explanation.
There is also Journal Quality as a metric for published research.There is
something called the h-index which is a metric used to evaluate this. The top
Journals Nature, and Science, have an h-index of 948 and 915 respectively while
the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks 49, not very good by comparison,
though some journals rank 0.
Another ranking called SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) has Nature and Science at 21
and 13 respectively, and the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks at 0.25.
These rankings indicate that poorer quality scientific papers get published in
this consciousness journal, that fewer scenentists are interested in stuff
published here. If you are a scientist, not very good, and want to be
published, then you look for lower ranked journals to try to get published.
The journal wants almost $30 for a PDF of the full paper, which is only
summarized by the PDF posted here.
Does one of the scientists have a copy they could send you which you could
post? They usually have these things on hand.
The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingenta
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Another point, Scientific Journals are not Scripture.
But continue to meditate. The byproducts of meditation, whatever they are, are
not as important as enlightenment.
From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like
Effect article published
Observations and correlations about meditation and well-being were made
throughout the last half of the 20th Century in published pilot research. A
rightly skeptical criticism of that body of scientific research conducted has
been that much that was substantial was without “replication”. The challenge
in 'repetition' from a general decline in the teaching of meditation to new
practitioners and the separation of many experienced practitioners from
organized group practice of group meditations in the 1990’s and 2000’s was then
obtaining repetition in that scope of research occurring previously in the
1970’s and 1980’s in the shear size of those previous meditating groups to
measure with controls. This scale of size recurred again, occurring for a
period of time running between 2007 and 2010.
These published papers as hypothesis testing appear now as 'critical'
replications in the correlation process of science.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
ArcherAngel, It would seem you could legitimately lodge your beefs on the
research with the journals themselves and their peer review processes. It would
be interesting to hear their responses.
You did notice and open in the original post on this topic that a pdf of the
research was included? As replication testing of hypothesis these papers seems
significant, like to..
The probability that the reduced trend for motor vehicle fatalities could
simply be due to chance was reported to be 3.7 in 10 million million and for
fatalities due to other accidents, less than 8.4 in 1 million.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <archonan...@yahoo.com> wrote :
There are other explanations for this outside the TM organization's universe,
it is attributed to better vehicle construction, and now that vehicles are
appearing that can sense potential danger, the drop in fatalities should
continue to go down.
Correlation is not causation. One of the problems of designing a study is
making sure there are no other plausible explanations for an effect, something
TM scientists are particularly adept at avoiding.
Those years also included the beginning of the recession and included large
fluctuations in gasoline prices, perhaps people also drove less as prices
increased.
"Federal transportation officials believe that much of the credit for saving
lives in accidents goes to the enhanced safety systems that are now available
in many automobiles."
Traffic Accident Fatalities Drop to Lowest Level in Decades
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It would be nice if the TM effect could be studied under more controlled
conditions, for if it is real, then scientists, not just those in the movement,
would take notice.
As it is, these effects are not believed outside the TM movement. Outside the
movement, movement studies are mostly regarded as poor quality science designed
for the promotion of TM rather than the discovery of truth.
As long as this situation continues, the use of science this way denigrates the
value of TM to this audience and ultimately undermines the purpose of doing
studies.
Example: The fact I lived in the United States during this period and engaged
in certain activities during this time not related to meditation also has the
same correlation with the reduction of accident fatalities.
What were accident statistics prior to this period, when Dome numbers were
often much higher, such as during the big courses in the 1980s?
I think meditation is valuable, but there are other factors in TM science that
need to be eliminated before the research is solid. The quality of meditation
research, even outside the TM sphere, tends to be low. From:
"dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 3:38 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like
Effect article published
In the postmodern one would hope that public policy could be enlightened by
science.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
These published papers are critical replications in the correlation of
science. The statistical significance of a 8.4 in a million chance that these
observations are just random should not be missed on people.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dickm...@lisco.com> wrote :
Attached is a summary of a new Maharishi Effect article, just published in the
Journal of Consciousness Studies, January-February 2017, authored by Dr.
Kenneth Cavanaugh and Dr. Michael Dillbeck. Please feel free to share widely.
"The study foundthat group practice of the Transcendental Meditation® and
TM-Sidhi® program byparticipants in the Invincible America Assembly at
Maharishi University of Management (MUM)was associated with a 20.6% reduction
of US motor vehicle fatalities over thefour-year period 2007–2010. The rate of
all other accidental deaths was alsoreduced by a total of 13.5% over the same
period.
The study estimates that 19,435 motor vehicle fatalities and16,759 other
accidental deaths were averted by the significantly reduced trendsin accident
rates.
>From 2007–2010 thesize of the group was above or near 1,725 participants, the
>size predicted tohave a positive influence on the US quality of life. This
>predicted thresholdrepresents the square root of 1% of the US population."
A new Maharishi Effect paper has just been published in the Journal of
Consciousness Studies, January-February 2017, authored by Dr. Kenneth Cavanaugh
and Dr. Michael Dillbeck.
The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingenta
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Keywords: TM-Sidhi programme; accidental fatality prevention; consciousness and
collective behaviour; intervention analysis; motor vehicle fatality prevention;
time series regression models
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