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The Unknown X Hypothesis
If the hypothesis is something that you just don't know, then you're not going to have any sort of expectation of what would occur if that thing were true. By the way, since I know you're a fan of Bayesian statistics, they get used a lot in parapsychology,. They have lots of discussions of statistics, including Bayesian statistics. But that's a story for another day. So let's jump to the other end of the spectrum and say, okay, it was a spirit. It was a literal noisy ghost when it's making, you know, bad noises come out of the phone. Okay, fine. What evidence do we have that it's a