Thread: Talking with dead people

What I found interesting is that you're capable of subconsciously creating your own results because you can see the board and move your fingers without really knowing you're doing it.

That's something we learned in my Research Methods class which I felt applied to ouija boards: You can falsify your results without knowing it, especially if you are physically capable of affecting what happens or the interpretation of the results is subjective and qualitative.

I don't know why you didn't think it made any difference; I think it does. It's a combination of being a scientist, and believing in an afterlife that doesn't include ghosts, that makes me skeptical: I want to know for sure whether something works or not, get rid of everything that could be affecting it one way or the other, find the rules by which something operates.

Your having control over the pointer is a variable that needs to be eliminated. Otherwise an ouija board can really only be proven to be a tool for talking to yourself (or your subconscious, at best).

One should still not be deluded by false realities though. If I believe in something, it is not because of the evidence I have of it existing. It is because I understand the evidence of it existing or lack, thereof, and choose to believe it anyways.