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Telepathic or just pathetic?. Investigations and experiments PPDAC. Telepathic or just pathetic? Background. Some people claim that it is possible to communicate information to someone else only using your thoughts and none of your other senses
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Telepathic or just pathetic?Background • Some people claim that it is possible to communicate information to someone else only using your thoughts and none of your other senses • Many experiments have been conducted to try to show scientifically that telepathy exists
Telepathic or just pathetic?Problem • Are you telepathic?
Telepathic or just pathetic?Plan • Zener cards will be used for the experiment
Telepathic or just pathetic?Plan • One of the five different cards will be selected at random by the experimenter and mentally projected to the participants
Telepathic or just pathetic?Plan • Participants will record which of the five cards they think has been transmitted telepathically
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Telepathic or just pathetic?Analysis • Listen carefully as the cards that were transmitted are read out in order • Mark each one as correct (or not) and add up how many transmissions you correctly received
Telepathic or just pathetic?Analysis • Based on samples of 30 from a population with p = 0.2 • Using the binomial distribution • Setting limits for sample proportions based on the population proportion
Telepathic or just pathetic?Conclusion • Are you telepathic? Explain your answer using statistics. • Do you have any concerns about the design of the experiment?