Well you have lots of references above, so I won't repeat them. The experiment I was referring to has been replicated hundreds of times by people with no interest in falsifying data or manipulating results (including me). In this experiment, subjects were asked to produce a string of random numbers between one and six - as if they were throwing a die 100 hundred times in a row. "Sheep" were far more likely to underestimate the number of times the same number would come up consecutively than "goats". This suggests that belief in the paranormal is in part due to the person seeing patterns that they do not believe could be due to chance or co-incidence. However because they are underestimating coincidence, their belief may be in error.

Like I say, I keep an open mind on certain phenomena and watch the research going on at Edinburgh into parapsychology with great interest.

Bagpuss