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Evidence Evaluation

It is easy to devise self-consistent but false theories provided you are content to disregard half of the evidence; but the only way to avoid the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion is an unflinching determination to take the whole of the evidence into acount whatever the cost.
— Alfred North Whitehead

The Evidence Scoring System is designed to objectively determine what cases provide the most convincing evidence for Survival of the human personality after the demise of the physical body. A description of this system can be found in a pdf document [click HERE to download]. This document includes the calculator tables used to determine each case score.

Ranking by the ESS determines inclusion in the Survival Top 40