Comments on: Dr Richard Wiseman psychic power twitter test

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:58:54 +0000

I failed to see the point in this experiment? The general public are not any good at remote viewing.

By: ScreamingGreenConure

ScreamingGreenConure — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:49:37 +0000

Me too, Marie. Once again male bearded roommate and I picked the same one, and once again it was totally wrong. We’re never going to win that Randi Challenge $1,000,000 if we don’t get paranormal fast. Two more tries at it!

By: ReliegiousMarie

ReliegiousMarie — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:59:43 +0000

Awaah, ..me fataly flawed

By: ScreamingGreenConure

ScreamingGreenConure — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:27:54 +0000

Hey guys, next trial is in 30 minutes! SCIENCE!!

By: ScreamingGreenConure

ScreamingGreenConure — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:28:31 +0000

I got it wrong too. My roommate (male, bearded) and I both picked B. Maybe we’ll unlock our innate psychic abilities in tomorrow’s trial.

By: Rachael

Rachael — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:48:20 +0000

Feel that it’s somehow wrong that, despite the fact i am sceptical of the experiment showing anything other than random choice, i am also rather disappointed that i got it wrong today… ::) Damn my lack of psychicness…

By: ScreamingGreenConure

ScreamingGreenConure — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:03:36 +0000

Hayley: maybe if psychologists quite shoving people in fake prisons and pretending to electrocute them, they’d get more participants!
Just kidding, I know that stuff isn’t allowed any more, but I still wouldn’t dare go to a set physical location to be in an experiment. Online ones are much less worrying.

By: Hayley

Hayley — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:23:40 +0000

To SGC – too true, I’m afraid. Securing participants is always a pain in the a*se, which is why so many end up using only university students – surely not an accurate representation of the population, yet the main guinea pigs.

I love Wiseman’s stuff – it raises a fair amount of academic snobbery due to the populist nature, but I think the prejudice is unfounded. I think it’s great that he makes real science accessible and non-threatening for so many people. It’s cool to have that inviting kind of attitude and hope he keeps going for years to come.

By: ScreamingGreenConure

ScreamingGreenConure — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:45:27 +0000

It’s not silly at all. It’s an awesome idea. Social networking sites give researchers the opportunity for a HUGE amount of participants so they can do large-scale experiments like this. GO WISEMAN GO.

By: Ms G

Ms G — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:35:22 +0000

Ehehehe … So what proof do we have that it happens under correct rules …

From the text the experiment is not all clear to me … and also, when do they say the trial succeeded? What percentage? I mean .. it should not be the same as statistics would tell on forehand already ….

I wont participate .. I would ruin the results completely ofcourse ….
I’m good at messing up research experiments … I’m always excluded after frist checks .. I’m not standard … (yes, very good objective research it is …)

I’m getting already impressions from spots … but that’s ofcourse psychic future visions, not remote viewing .. so they will not be interesting in this experiment ..

This picture … I wont tell what it tells me … psychologists dont like being on the ‘couch’ theirselves …

anyhow .. curious how this experiment will proceed ..