24 Facts About Ray Hyman

Ray Hyman was born on June 23,1928 and is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, and a noted critic of parapsychology.

Ray Hyman is the founder and leader of the Skeptic's Toolbox.

Ray Hyman serves on the Executive Council for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

Ray Hyman was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts to a Jewish family.

Ray Hyman told him he did not remember explicitly using a disclaimer.

Ray Hyman remembered always beginning the performance by stating that he did not claim any special powers.

Ray Hyman was an entertainer and he hoped they would enjoy the show.

Ray Hyman obtained a doctorate in psychology from Johns Hopkins University in 1953, and then taught at Harvard for five years.

In 1982, Ray Hyman held the "Spook Chair" for one year at Stanford University during a sabbatical from the University of Oregon.

Ray Hyman developed a style guide and etiquette manual to assist skeptical writers and critics.

Ray Hyman has investigated dowsing in the United States and written a book on the subject.

Ray Hyman is one of the foremost skeptical experts on the Ganzfeld experiment.

Ray Hyman retired in 1998 but continues to give talks and investigate paranormal claims.

Ray Hyman is working on two books: How Smart People Go Wrong: Cognition and Human Error and Parapsychology's Achilles' Heel: Consistent Inconsistency.

Ray Hyman responded that skeptics need to have goals and a way to measure them.

At the 2014 Toolbox, Ray Hyman used Oskar Pfungst's investigation of Clever Hans as an example of how detailed and exhaustive some investigators are in studying claims.

Ray Hyman published his "classic paper showing that human choice reaction time is related to the information content of an incoming signal" called the Hick-Ray Hyman Law.

Ray Hyman wrote to Charles Honorton and was sent 600 pages of information.

Three years later Ray Hyman's analysis led to the 1985 issue of the Journal of Parapsychology publishing Ray Hyman's critiques.

In 2007, Ray Hyman noted that the ganzfeld experiments had not been successfully replicated and suggested there was evidence that sensory leakage had taken place in the autoganzfeld experiments.

In 1972 Ray Hyman was asked by The Department of Defense to investigate psychic Uri Geller.

Ray Hyman was intrigued by a story that Geller had taken a ring from one of the scientists, set it on a table, and without touching it, the ring stood on end, broke in half and formed itself into a S-shape.

Ray Hyman wrote a brief guide called Proper Criticism directed at critics of paranormal claims.

Ray Hyman warns against criticism motivated by bad intentions, such as attacking the claimant instead of the claim.