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2 unusual facts about Experimenter


Experimenter

Experimenter Publishing, an American media company founded by Hugo Gernsback

Experimenter's bias

As a result of the large amount of public interest in Clever Hans, Philosopher and psychologist Carl Stumpf investigated von Osten's scientific claims.


Faraday's ice pail experiment

Stray static electric charges on the experimenter's body, clothes, or nearby apparatus, as well as AC electric fields from mains-powered equipment, can induce additional charges on parts of the container or charged object C, giving a false reading.

Ganzfeld experiment

Isolation — Richard Wiseman and others argue that not all of the studies used soundproof rooms, so it is possible that when videos were playing, the experimenter could have heard it, and later given involuntary cues to the receiver during the selection process.

High-pressure steam locomotive

An early experimenter with high-pressure steam was Jacob Perkins.

Richard Carew

Sir Richard Carew, 1st Baronet (c. 1580–1643), medical experimenter and educationist, son of the antiquary

St Tudy

Notable people from St Tudy include: William Bligh, naval officer; Eddie George, former governor of the Bank of England; Oscar Kempthorne, statistician and geneticist at Iowa State University; and Richard Lower, early experimenter in blood transfusion.

Stuart William Seeley

From 1915-1924 he was an amateur radio experimenter and commercial operator, then worked at General Electric 1925-1926, Sparks Withington 1926-1935, and the RCA License Laboratory, starting in 1935.


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