Showing posts with label esp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label esp. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

This student is going to annoy me all semester

In my general psychology class today, I was teaching about the sensory systems. At the end of the section, I talk briefly about ESP and basically crush all of their delusions telling them that there is no empirical evidence supporting extrasensory perception. The students asked a few of the typical questions like, "What about twins? Do they have any ESP?" Okay, fine. I understand those types of questions.

But then a student asked, "What about epilepsy?"

Me: "What about epilepsy?"

Student: "I don't know. Just epilepsy."

Me: "You mean is epilepsy related to ESP?"

Student: "Yes."

Me: "No."