Let's not compare to physics where a passing statistical test is five standard deviations since there isn't any statistical test that can be used to verify any hypothesis regarding NDEs. Your 20% isn't a statistical test. It is just a raw number.Eugene I wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 1:42 pmWell, first, according to Sam Parina studies, about 20% of people resuscitated after clinical death people report NDE-like experiences, which is not statistically insignificant. Second, a low statistical frequency/probability of occurring is never an argument to dismiss any facts in any scientific study. The probability of producing a Higgs boson in Hadron Collider in a random particle collision is 1 in 10 billion, yet this has no relevance to the experimental proof of its existence as long as the events are reproducible with significant enough statistical value.Jim Cross wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:35 am Finally, if NDEs are taken somewhat at face value, it is hard to know what to conclude from them. Most people who have near death episode have no recollection of anything. Going by majority rule, we would have to conclude there is nothing to experience after life ends. If we want to look at the experiences of the minority, a half or more have horrible experiences to report.
Because Higgs boson production in a particle collision is likely to be very rare (1 in 10 billion at the LHC),[m] and many other possible collision events can have similar decay signatures, the data of hundreds of trillions of collisions needs to be analysed and must "show the same picture" before a conclusion about the existence of the Higgs boson can be reached. To conclude that a new particle has been found, particle physicists require that the statistical analysis of two independent particle detectors each indicate that there is lesser than a one-in-a-million chance that the observed decay signatures are due to just background random Standard Model events – i.e., that the observed number of events is more than five standard deviations (sigma) different from that expected if there was no new particle. More collision data allows better confirmation of the physical properties of any new particle observed, and allows physicists to decide whether it is indeed a Higgs boson as described by the Standard Model or some other hypothetical new particle.
In July 2017, CERN confirmed that all measurements still agree with the predictions of the Standard Model, and called the discovered particle simply "the Higgs boson".[1] As of 2019, the Large Hadron Collider has continued to produce findings that confirm the 2013 understanding of the Higgs field and particle.
If near death experiences are anything more than brain generated images, you ought to be able to explain why almost all people who have a near death episode don't have them. Most, but not all, reported experiences involve cardiovascular failure which results in decreased blood and oxygen flow to brain. The simplest, most parsimonious explanation is that is what shuts down parts of the brain and the occasionally "remembered" experiences are reconstructed narratives of some experience occurring just before and/or just after flatline.
Those two evidences from Sam Parina study reported reproducible events during the period of the flatline. Of course 2 evidences are statistically insufficient to consider them as proven facts, so more data is needed. Also, such parsimonious explanation does not explain at all why NDE experiences are so consistent while psychedelic, dreaming or hallucinatory experiences are typically entirely inconsistent.