What the hell is this gibberish?

First Posted by Vision from Failing

July 5 2010 update: Demonstration Statistics

As the demonstration is still in its design stages, the statistics of the demonstration have now been assigned. I will not reveal the numbers yet, until my testing organization is ready to make the announcement, but I would like to say that the statistics of this demonstration are too low to qualify this event as a test. If my results in this demonstration are all fully correct, the statistics are still too low to provide evidence toward the claim, therefore this demonstration can under no results verify the claim due to insufficient test subjects and low statistics.

Why? Well, because if I produce the correct answers in this demonstration, somebody might as well have done that just by guessing, and a large enough number of random guessers would be predicted to make the same fully accurate answers. That is why if I am fully accurate in this demonstration, there is no way here to distinguish between the use of some skill, or the average guesser's luck.

It's been fun to take part in the rumours over at the JREF Forum about whether Annie's demonstration is the seekrit MDC Challenge Event scheduled for the last day of TAM8, but srsly, it's a bit difficult to believe that any credible sceptical organisation would entertain the idea of involving itself with the clot that wrote the above nonsense, let alone the JREF.

Posted By UncaYimmy on 11 Jul 2010 04:42 PM
She's referred to "my skeptics" before, so I don't think it's the same type of usage as "my doctor" is for sane people. The one thing that is worth commenting on right now is that is she claimed she was too poor to buy a couple of OTC drugs to complete the test the Pup from JREF sent her (crushed pills), yet she can repeatedly fly to California and attend TAM in Vegas.

Bolding mine.

 

This is indeed a very good distinction.
I think you are right. VfF's language does generally not fit in the sane realm anyways.

Her  too poor to buy a couple OTC drugs excuse is simply a lie among many many other lies and misrepresentations.
She's a fraud at heart.
This aspect of VfF can not be overstated.

Well, it saddens me to say that Anita is indeed the super secret MDC applicant currently on stage at TAM8. It is being billed as a demonstration of what she claims she can do, and not an actual test, preliminary or otherwise. She is currently claiming to be able to detect a missing kidney or uterus. She is getting 6 minutes per person for observations and evaluations. It is sad that the MDC has gotten to this level of desperation that they will allow her to darken the TAM stage at all.

Posted By TheSkepticCanuck on 11 Jul 2010 09:31 PM

Well, it saddens me to say that Anita is indeed the super secret MDC applicant currently on stage at TAM8. It is being billed as a demonstration of what she claims she can do, and not an actual test, preliminary or otherwise. She is currently claiming to be able to detect a missing kidney or uterus. She is getting 6 minutes per person for observations and evaluations. It is sad that the MDC has gotten to this level of desperation that they will allow her to darken the TAM stage at all.

What TSC said, with added swearing and disgust.
 

Posted By UncaYimmy on 11 Jul 2010 04:42 PM
She's referred to "my skeptics" before, so I don't think it's the same type of usage as "my doctor" is for sane people. The one thing that is worth commenting on right now is that is she claimed she was too poor to buy a couple of OTC drugs to complete the test the Pup from JREF sent her (crushed pills), yet she can repeatedly fly to California and attend TAM in Vegas.

Ahem.

I would like to gently, tactfully, and sensitively broach the idea that VfF is not the one paying for her plane tickets. Even though I did think she was lying about not being able to afford the pills.

Also, add me to the list of those disgusted about her upcoming appearance. She may be a foreigner, but she's already learned that it pays to have powerful male supporters. In more ways than one. Cf. the reference to plane tickets, above.

Posted By Christa on 12 Jul 2010 05:37 AM Ahem.

I would like to gently, tactfully, and sensitively broach the idea that VfF is not the one paying for her plane tickets. Even though I did think she was lying about not being able to afford the pills.

Also, add me to the list of those disgusted about her upcoming appearance. She may be a foreigner, but she's already learned that it pays to have powerful male supporters. In more ways than one. Cf. the reference to plane tickets, above.

To be fair, we don't actually know that the JREF paid for her plane ticket. After all, she paid to fly to LA a few months ago to attend another IIG challenge, so apparently money is not a big obstacle. Besides, last we heard, she was dating one of the IIG members, so she might have already been in the LA area with him, and merely travelled from LA to Vegas with him. There are enough things wrong with Anita being on the MDC stage at TAM without needing to possibly invent additional things to complain about. Let's stick to the known facts, and hold our complaints about other issues until we actually have facts to complain about. For now, we have no evidence that the JREF paid any portion of her expenses, so let's hold off with the complaints until we do.

Once again, ahem.

That the JREF paid her fares is not what I am gently, subtly, tactfully, and sensitively intimating.

I believe they're following whatever rules they usually follow. I have no reason whatsoever to doubt that.  My understanding is that they are not responsible for transportation to the venue, so I believe they're not paying transportation for VfF.