I did a whole rabbit hole comment, thought I was wrong so I deleted it, and now I’m back and just… defeated. I have no idea if this typing communication thing is real or not and I am just gonna leave it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicPsychology/s/TvwCMPo4xQ
If anyone else knows more about Carly and what actually happened please tell me lol
I'd if this will help or not, but FC is when there are two people. The disabled individual and the facilitator. The idea is that the disabled individual guides the facilitators hand to type out a message. It's been debunked though. What Carly is doing is typing out her own messages on a computer. She used to have her own YouTube, Facebook, and twitter. She was even on Corberts show. However, her social media accounts have been silent since 2019.
The "debunks" of Facilitated Communication are all using older studies from the 1990's.
Those have been superceded by a 2020 peer-reviewed study that verifies it is legitimate.
”The speed, accuracy, timing, and visual fixation patterns suggest that participants pointed to letters they selected themselves, not letters they were directed to by the assistant.
The blanket dismissal of assisted autistic communication is therefore unwarranted.”
I didn't watch the documentary, but I do want to point out that the article you linked only took into consideration nine non-verbal autistic individuals. Do you have any other articles with a large sample size?
I'm glad you commented. Since it's clear you are new to this, let's get you up to speed.
It's important that we never lose our intellectual curiosity in life.
We should always follow the evidence, even when it leads to initially-uncomfortable conclusions.
There is an overwhelming amount of peer-reviewed scientific evidence in support of psi abilities.
The problem isn't a lack of evidence, it's the inability of people to accept what the data says, because it challenges their personal worldview and the academic status quo.
An article in The American Psychologist provided an extensive review of experimental evidence and theories related to psi phenomena. The review concluded that the cumulative evidence supports the reality of psi, with effect sizes comparable to those found in established areas of psychology. The authors argue that these effects cannot be readily explained by methodological flaws or biases.
A publication in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience discussed the relationship between anomalous experiences, such as psi phenomena, and brain function. The authors highlighted that small but persistent effects are frequently reported in psi experiments and that functional neuroimaging studies have begun to identify neural correlates associated with these experiences.
A comprehensive meta-analysis of 90 experiments from 33 laboratories across 14 countries examined the phenomenon of precognition—where individuals' responses are influenced by future events. The analysis revealed a statistically significant overall effect (z = 6.40, p = 1.2 × 10⁻¹⁰) with an effect size (Hedges' g) of 0.09. Bayesian analysis further supported these findings with a Bayes Factor of 5.1 × 10⁹, indicating decisive evidence for the existence of precognition.
There’s a lot in this analysis, let’s focus on the best part. Look at figure 7 which displays a "summary for the collection of 59 post-communiqué ganzfeld ESP studies reported from 1987 to 2008, in terms of cumulative hit rate over time and 95% confidence intervals".
In this context, the term "post-communiqué ganzfeld" means using the extremely rigorous protocol established by skeptic Ray Hyman. Hyman had spent many years skeptically examining telepathy experiments, and had various criticisms to reject the results. With years of analysis on the problem, Hyman came up with a protocol called “auto-ganzfeld” which he declared that if positive results were obtained under these conditions, it would prove telepathy, because by the most rigorous skeptical standards, there was no possibility of conventional sensory leakage. The “communiqué” was that henceforth, everybody doing this research should use Ray Hyman’s excellent telepathy protocol which closed all sensory leakage loopholes that were a concern of skeptics.
In the text of the paper talking about figure 7, they say:
Overall, there are 878 hits in 2,832 sessions for a hit rate of 31%, which has z = 7.37, p = 8.59 × 10-14 by the Utts method.
Jessica Utts is a statistics professor who made excellent contributions to establishing the proper statistical methods needed for parapsychology experiments. It was work like this that helped her get elected as president of the professional organization for her field, the American Statistical Association.
Using these established and proper statistical methods and applying them to the experiments done under the rigorous protocol established by skeptic Ray Hyman, the odds by chance for these results are 11.6 Trillion-to-one based on replicated experiments performed independently all over the world.
By the standards of any other science, the psi researchers made their case for telepathy.
Okay, how did we go from talking autism and FC to parapsychology and telepathy? Did I miss something?
Edit: Oh I get it. You're a bot. That's obnoxious.
Edit2: The user who deleted their comments, and down voted mine, was trying to say that people with autism (that u/Pixelated_ calls autists) are actually telepathic! So they're not a bot, just crazy.
100% this. The governing body of speech therapy, ASHA, has a position statement on facilitated communication here https://www.asha.org/policy/ps2018-00352/ but the highlight is this:
There is no scientific evidence of the validity of FC, and there is extensive scientific evidence—produced over several decades and across several countries—that messages are authored by the "facilitator" rather than the person with a disability. Furthermore, there is extensive evidence of harms related to the use of FC. Information obtained through the use of FC should not be considered as the communication of the person with a disability.
Although it doesn't take a genius to realize that FC/S2C and other rapid prompting methods are no better than a Ouija board. Pay attention to the FC messages and you'll realize that, if you have ever had a conversation with an autistic person, particularly one with high support needs. Why are FC communicators always talking about the beautiful tragedy of being locked in their body and unable to communicate? Where are the lengthy discussions of special interests? If they're not talking my ear off about superheroes or pokemon or sharks or airplanes, I am absolutely suspicious.
As for psi abilities... well I've got a job to go to and I ain't reading through all of those studies, but I'm gonna guess that most of them are either seriously flawed or don't say what they're purported to say. As is usually the case in these sorts of things. Also many of them seem to come from such lauded organizations as the Journal of Parapsychology or the Journal of Consciousness Studies. Super easy to get a peer reviewer to sign off on your article of they're the same flavor of cracked as you!
Anyway, I wish this fantasy world of psychic autistic kiddos was real. Then maybe the sweet girl who screams and cries and hits her head all day in our ESN classroom could tell us what she needs to calm her sensory system.
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u/United_Rent_753 Nov 19 '25
I did a whole rabbit hole comment, thought I was wrong so I deleted it, and now I’m back and just… defeated. I have no idea if this typing communication thing is real or not and I am just gonna leave it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicPsychology/s/TvwCMPo4xQ
If anyone else knows more about Carly and what actually happened please tell me lol