Qualifies· moderateMPI-E007
Flores 2021: five in-house replications, three significant under permutation tests
- what the source states
- A doctoral thesis under Watt and Walach ran five replication studies, the first two exact replications using Lucadou's own RNG, software, and protocol, with new control and analysis methods introduced and compared against the originals. Per the successor preprint's summary, Flores "still reports significant results in three out of five studies," while her Monte Carlo work found that high intercorrelations among psychological variables had inflated the original studies' significance.
- what we infer
- The most double-edged record in the case: partial positive results that survive her own dependence-aware analyses, produced inside the same project that sharpened the strongest statistical critique of the founding experiments. It qualifies both the clean-null narrative and the founding results at once.
- limitations
- Thesis examination rather than journal peer review; the five studies share equipment, personnel, and analytic choices, so they are not five independent confirmations.