20th March 2005, 5:44 PM
It would seem so, but again, what was the TOPIC of these rooms? There are many extenuating thingamajiggers that render any conclusions impossible. You have to design the experiment so that the ONLY answer you can get from it is either a definitive yes or no to your hypothesis.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)