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The author concludes that some people have a “sixth sense” allowing them to know whether or not someone is watching them. The evidence provided is a study where people guessed correctly 60% of the time whether they were being watched through a window.

The author assumes that 60% accuracy, which isn't much higher than chance, is enough to prove that a “sixth sense” exists. The author also assumes that the 60% result was caused by a sixth sense, and not by some other factor, like the participants picking up on some pattern in the study set-up that allowed them to guess more accurately.

We don’t care what the participants' answers were, just whether their answers were right or wrong. We're trying to explain how they were right 60% of the time. This answer choice doesn't help us do that.

What happened after the experiment ended isn't relevant to whether the participants' correct guesses were due to a “sixth sense.”

This tells us that the results of the first study weren't necessarily due to some flaw in the first study's set-up. Moreover, just by replicating an experimental result and thus increasing the sample size, this choice strengthens the argument.

If anything, this weakens the argument. It suggests a way the participants could have guessed if they were being watched without having a \"sixth sense\", perhaps by hearing the person who was watching them.

Irrelevant. It’s not clear what effect the choice of subjects has on whether they have a \"sixth sense\" or not.

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