Hi SG7, thanks for your replies - it's nice to get some straight answers from someone on this board

Hope you don't mind me discussing them. I'm trying to consider the possibilities, from the point of view of accepting that what you say is true as
your experience; accordingly, I'm looking for evidence that the most reasonable explanation for your experiences is what you believe is the most reasonable explanation (namely electrokinesis). I also have in mind that you say you don't care what others think - I'm kind of thinking that you might want a bit of input into testing it yourself, in order to understand better what's going on.
QUOTE (SG7 @ Feb 13 2008, 03:40 AM)

1. yes that it.
Okay, so it seems the main difference between the 'surprised twitch' and the 'nervous twitch' is that when one happens, nothing else does, and when the other happens, the lights go funny. This is possibly my first 'red flag' of something happening other than what you think. See, it's coming down to definitions - by definition, when you twitch and nothing happens, you consider that a surprised twitch; when you twitch and something happens, you consider that a nervous, electrokinetic twitch. So it seems highly possible that they are the
same twitch with
different consequences. This could imply that the phenomenon is taking place far less often than you think.
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2.No ???
This simply implies that if you have a power, you have little control over it, as you've stated before. I just wanted to check you'd tried the obvious.
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3.happens simultaneously.
Okay, here's the next red flag - the fact that the twitch and the electrical thing happen, as far as you can tell, simultaneously. This is a shame as it means that you can't quickly go "it's about to happen!" (or even "aha!") before it does; but there's a bigger problem too. This is the problem of the
direction of causality. Which is causing the other? You've said you're prone to nervous/surprised twitching. You've said that you have electrokinesis. If I believed I had electrokinesis, I'd react in some way every time something electrical and weird happened. Since the two things happen simultaneously (from your perspective, and remember it's actually very hard to tell), it could be that
you twitch when something weird happens, rather than something weird happening when you twitch. Do you follow? It seems hard to tell if you're causing or reacting.
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4. 96% was a educated guess, now I think about it, I cant think of a time it does not happen.
5. I have no wight-in records on this. I never thwart it would mater. But going on what I can remember, it happens almost ever time. I'm am starting to keep a record now that it mater's. ( and please no crap about my memery people, I don't care what you think.)
I can absolutely see why you thought it wouldn't matter, and well done for beginning to keep records now. You've said before that you don't care what people think, and that's okay - but the nature of memory is crucial here. And it's not just what sceptics say to disprove things ("no, you've remembered it wrong, that can't possibly have happened!"), it's actually the basis of more than a century of scientific investigation into the nature of memory.
I'll keep it brief, but this is important: memory is fallible. Not just your memory - all of our memories. In experiment after experiment, people have been shown to remember things vividly that never happened; to distort memories unconsciously; to forget things they would never think they forget; and to interpret their own memories incorrectly.
Here is a fairly good list of 'cognitive biases' which distort the way we see things; and
here is the corresponding list of biases purely related to memory. They're long lists! But fortunately there's a simple way around
some of them (especially the one called 'confirmation bias'): writing stuff down systematically. It's a pain, and (ironically) easy to forget to do, but it goes a very long way when you need a decent record of, say, how often something is happening.
The bottom line is: guessing, weirdly, isn't a reliable way to say how often something is happening. And, as we're not even just looking for how often here, but an actual
correlation (i.e. how often
two things happen at the same time), it's even less reliable.
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6. The battery tester is the only way I can think of doing it scientifically.
7. and I cant get it to work wen done on purpose.
Yes, the battery tester is a good idea, if you would expect it to show a reading when the phenomenon occurs. But if there's no way you can do it on purpose, at all, and there's no way to get even a second's warning before it does happen, then it's hard to see how it'll help. Unless the battery tester can keep records of some kind - some sort of computerised one with a memory chip? I wouldn't worry at this stage about others not accepting that as evidence - actually demonstrating it would be a whole nother ballgame anyway.
So, there are a few things going on here that indicate to me that electrokinesis is not the only explanation for what's going on here:
The lack of proper recording at this stage, coupled with the possibilities that the two types of twitches could very well be the same, and that there's no way of teling whether you're causing the anomalies or reacting to them, lead me to think of '
confirmation bias' and 'direction of causality mistake' as a reasonable explanation. What we have to bear in mind here, is that electrical anomalies do occur, on their own, all the time. Since taking part in this thread, I've noticed lots and lots of little glitches which mostly just pass us by - lights dimming and flickering, bulbs going, streetlights turning off, things turning off or on seemingly on their own. This is to be expected in a world packed full of cheaply made, mass-produced, complicated electronic equipment. If occasionally these things coincide with something we did (or even if we react to them so quickly it's hard to tell which happened first), we might very well reasonable, but mistakenly, draw a conclusion of paranormal ability.
That's what I think may be happening here, based on the information presented.
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