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Agape Experiment: Testing Group Telepathy (statistical study in progress)

Agape Experiment: Testing Group Telepathy (statistical study in progress). Dr Bernard Auriol (EuroPA meeting, November 2003). A Group Experiment. H 1 : The rate of hits is increased by redundancy due to vote. H 0 : The rate of hits is not increased by vote. Protocol

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Agape Experiment: Testing Group Telepathy (statistical study in progress)

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  1. Agape Experiment:Testing Group Telepathy(statistical study in progress) Dr Bernard Auriol (EuroPA meeting, November 2003)

  2. A Group Experiment H1 : The rate of hits is increased by redundancy due to vote. H0 : The rate of hits is not increased by vote. Protocol A transmitting group (1-16 senders) and a receiving group (1-16 voters) were located in two isolate rooms. Everything was monitored and recorded by computers.

  3. Target’s type : either pictures (2) or words (3 or 5) Participants : any voluntary (either sheep or goat) sender or receiver role generally chosen by the participants 274 female (2/3) 145 male (1/3) 240 telepathic ESP group sessions: 27,845 collective trials (250,000 individual trials)

  4. Results

  5. Variance of success got by vote(30 trials per salvo)

  6. Variance of intervals To reach a better evaluation, we note the interval ( number of misses) between two consecutive hits, and check the varianceof these intervals (random or not ?). 

  7. Variance of the intervals * ==> p < 0.05

  8. Conclusionof the hypothesis test This type of group experiment did not increase the psi-hitting rate regarding either individual answers or answers obtained by vote.  No improvement of the Signal to Noise ratio (S/N) (redundancy got from majority vote is not effective).  Variance was significantly weak with two targets. But strong for three targets and normal for five. Are these variations explainable by socio-psychological attitudes ?

  9. Prospective Covariance Analysis of success cases

  10. Collective trials significantly different from chance (p <0.05)

  11. The significant variables were selected thanks to a stepwise procedure and kept under a threshold of 5%. We get significant parameters with a p-value close to 0.0001

  12. Sybil(Systematic bilocality) We plan to devise a protocol to test the following hypothesis: We can hope for success with groups only if we build sub-groups so that there is more affinity between receivers and senders than among receivers. A simple sociometric test should be enough to achieve this, provided the results for each sessions help to distribute the roles of transmitter and receiver.

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