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$\begingroup$ That little itty bitty shine most definitely can make your retina do something: nature.com/news/people-can-sense-single-photons-1.20282 - your brain just won't pick it up when there's other, more intense signals anywhere. $\endgroup$
– Michael Borgwardt
Commented Mar 16, 2018 at 8:29
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$\begingroup$ @MichaelBorgwardt they tested a whole 3 people... hardly good methodology $\endgroup$
– Alex Robinson
Commented Mar 16, 2018 at 10:51
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$\begingroup$ "other, more intense signals" - such as good old thermal noise in the amplifier stack. $\endgroup$
– John Dvorak
Commented Mar 16, 2018 at 12:01
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$\begingroup$ @Cursed Why? If I want to show that something is possible, showing that it works on 3/3 participants seems good enough to me. (And it's not like that were 3 trials, those were thousands of trials with 3 participants). $\endgroup$
– sgf
Commented Mar 16, 2018 at 16:46

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