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> If you detect such bias, your wife may be able to earn $1M prize for her supernatural abilities. [1]

This snark seems unnecessary, given that magnetoception by bats and birds is unlikely to win said prize.



That's no snark.

If she can reliably demonstrate sensitivity to -60dBm RF signals (nanoWatts - the typical received signal strength of a Wi-Fi signal), that's the equivalent of having discovered a new human sense on top of the 5 known senses.

This discovery, or the explanation of mechanism underlying this sense, is worthy of a Nobel prize.




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