Clarification on my Published Thought Field Therapy Voice Technology Study
I just received by postal mail, a 7 page handwritten letter from one of Callahan's followers, accusing me of, among other things, hiding data because I didn't include how many treatment rounds it took to complete the treatments for the VT vs. control groups. Sorry to have to disappoint Callahan and his followers, but the difference was not significant. Here is a clarification I also posted to my TFT-ALGO list serv:
It has come to my attention that some of Callahan's proponents are
accusing me of hiding data from my VT study because I didn't include
the number of rounds it took for me to complete the treatment on the
VT group versus the control group. Actually, in my original
manuscript I had reported this, that the difference was not
statistically significant, but for the final, one of my reviewers
suggested it wasn't necessary to include this so I didn't. I wasn't
hiding data. I was simply following the advice of my reviewer and I
have nothing to hide. Both groups completed treatment in, on average,
2.8/2.7 rounds -- statistically the same. Here is the section from the first
version I submitted to the journal that reported on this:
"Additionally, an independent samples t-test, performed for number of
rounds of meridian point sequences needed to complete the treatment
revealed no significant differences for the VT treatment group
(M=2.8, SD=1.8) and the control group (M=2.7, SD=1.4) (p=.824)."
Note the very high p value.
I hope this clarifies any confusion on the matter.
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