Find the Confound Dr. R. A. Rabinoff, professor of physics at the Maharishi International University, claims scientific proof that transcendental meditation (TM) can influence the weather. According to Franklin Trumpy (1983-1984), the university was building a domed structure for the practice of levitation. They were rushing the construction throughout the cold Iowa winter and needed to pour concrete on days when the weather would permit. According to the university's architect, the concrete was poured whenever the schedule called for it and was obtained from a company that supplied ready-mixed concrete. If the company agreed to supply the concrete the next day, the students at the university were instructed to meditate that evening for favorable weather. According to Rabinoff, the weather was favorable six out of eight times that the students meditated, proving the effectiveness of meditation. Trumpy's analysis of the actual data for the area revealed that the weather was favorable on less than half of the days during the period covered by the project, showing that there was a considerable difference in the weather on the days when concrete was scheduled to be poured. Let us assume that the data are statistically significant and that the results were not