Mike-

I guess my point is that you have to start with a premise and that starting with a premise does not jepordize the results. The data will bear itself out over time. It has to by the mathematical properties of statistics.

To engage Normality, Petra will need at least 30 datapoints; of course more is always better.

I tend to think that there are other variables that may limit Petra's discoveries. The limits on human hearing for example. I think what she is trying to do is show there exists a waveform that may be detectable and that it may be something that is right in front of us.

I think that people may not detect everything everytime because there are events in life that can be distracting. Location may play a role as well.
Perhaps the higher up or the more in the line of site, the better the detector will identify the signal. Microwave transmissions need line of site. I am just conjecturing the vars, those will be flushed out over time.

I think that even if, in the beginning, only a 11% chance appears, it is still noteworthy and should be further explored and refined. We might stumble on a combination that yields 100%. However, you have to start somewhere. Availing all possible permutations to identify correlations is not manipulating your data resullts either. I would tend to think if it as adding "filters" to see if anything significant falls out.

I beleive Petra sees the forest through the trees and had made amzing progress interpreting what she has discovered. I think we need to give her more time, and hopefully more folx will try to lend her a hand as she explores her discovery.

I am also reminded of a New Zealand housewife and grandmother who turned palentology upside down by digging in her backyard and over time discovering a plethora of dinosaurs that previously did not exist. ( she got to name them too! ) All experts said no dinos ever walked the new zealand landscape. The know differently now, and that woman is still actively involved in the field today. ( She endured a lot of controversy too. )

--Marc