Science · Research & investigation
Ray Hyman
Psychologist and anomalous-cognition reviewer
Also known as Raymond Hyman
Photograph · Image credit
Who they are
Ray Hyman is a psychologist who reviewed government-supported research on anomalous cognition. In his 1995 evaluation he accepted that the reported SAIC effects called for explanation but disagreed with Jessica Utts that psychic functioning had been established. His focus was methodological reliability, independent replication and the distinction between statistical results and a demonstrated mechanism.
His assessment is one side of the documented disagreement over the scientific meaning of remote-viewing results.
Selected contributions
Selected works
Report · 1995
Evaluation of program on anomalous mental phenomena
Hyman evaluates the SRI and SAIC anomalous-cognition research and explains his disagreement with Jessica Utts. He accepts that the reported effects merit explanation but argues that the evidence does not establish a paranormal mechanism.
Dated September 11, 1995; the mirror is a later transcription, and first public release is not established.
Reading scope & citation
Freshly read introduction, scope and points of agreement/disagreement in the UCI-hosted transcription; remaining report relies on prior scoped inspection.
In the timeline
Biography sources & portrait credit
- Evaluation of program on anomalous mental phenomena ↗Ray Hyman / University of California, Irvine mirror
Portrait credit
Rouven Schäfer. CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
