Now REALLY, Fpeel, you haven't properly digested Stevemj's posts. Please PROVE that betting would make a test like that moot.
I suggest a double blind setting with people, who have betted, and a similar group, identical in n, age and gender to group one, who have not. Furthermore two control groups are necessary. Firstly one, where all think that they have made a bet, but in fact have not. Secondly another group, where all are under the impression not to have placed bets, but who actually have. Then of course, we have to agree on the maths used, to work out a possible statistical significance. As for finding members for the placebo control groups, I think it would not be difficult to recruit them here, many of us - on both sides of the great divide between "scientists" and "believers" are prone to occasional attacks of suggestibility, which I am ready to prove : I suggest a double blind.......please read from the second paragraph of this post. Thankyou.
I suggest a double blind setting with people, who have betted, and a similar group, identical in n, age and gender to group one, who have not. Furthermore two control groups are necessary. Firstly one, where all think that they have made a bet, but in fact have not. Secondly another group, where all are under the impression not to have placed bets, but who actually have. Then of course, we have to agree on the maths used, to work out a possible statistical significance. As for finding members for the placebo control groups, I think it would not be difficult to recruit them here, many of us - on both sides of the great divide between "scientists" and "believers" are prone to occasional attacks of suggestibility, which I am ready to prove : I suggest a double blind.......please read from the second paragraph of this post. Thankyou.