On 6-7-2009 0:28, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I had understood that the third group (unlike the others) were told they 
> were being prayed for. That's why there were three groups instead of two.

And a possible explanation would be that they would think somebody else 
would help them so they could devote energy to other things than 
recovering. Still most probably a fluke.

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