What abilities do you need?

What abilities do you need?

Chris French (Anomalistic Psychologist) gives expert video advice on: What is anomalistic psychology?; What is the difference between anomalistic psychology and parapsychology?; Is parapsychology a real science? and more...

Other than the abilities that you need to be either a nomalistic psychologist or a parapsychologist. Basically, a respect for scientific method and the ability to handle qualitative and quantitative data. A lot of that will involve being able to understand and carry out statistical analysis, to know about experimental design, to know about how to test these kinds of claims properly. If you are a parapsychologist, you have a set of experiments that would rule out any non-paranormal explanations for any findings you may obtain. If you are a nomalistic psychologist, again you need to understand experimental design and be able to control for any confounding factors, and so on and so forth. And at the end of the day you'll be able to draw stronger conclusions from your results and hopefully be able to convince people that your hypothesis was correct.