RE: Anecdotal Evidence
December 7, 2016 at 12:26 am
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2016 at 12:28 am by Full Circle.)
(November 29, 2016 at 4:11 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(November 29, 2016 at 10:54 am)Full Circle Wrote: Like Fatima and the “dancing, zig-zagging” Sun?
Sometimes when 1,000 people report something odd it is simply mass hallucination and not qualitative evidence.
Is there any evidence that mass hallucinations are a real phenomena?
Mass hallucinations, usually called mass hysteria has been documented and explained by psychologists.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/bra...re-anytime
Examples.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/mass_delus...millennium
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