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From: andrel
Date: 5 Jul 2009 18:22:03
Message: <4A512788.3050406@hotmail.com>

On 6-7-2009 0:09, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> IIRC One of the groups that was prayed for did significantly worse*. I 
>> don't remember exactly which one, I think the group that knew.
> 
> Oh, yes. By "surprising", I thought you meant the prayer actually 
> helped, which would be surprising to those doing the experiment.
> 
Any change would be surprising to the non-believer. This has the 
advantage that everybody is just as astonished.

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