Title | Techno-Dowsing |
Experimenter | Paul Stevens (with invaluable assistance from Jannine Rebman) |
Context | Feasibility study |
Period | DATA COLLECTION: June - September '95. Analyses ongoing (see description) |
Psi phenomenon | Subconscious Precognition |
Dependent Vars | Electrodermal and electroencephalographic activity, and peripheral blood flow |
Number of Ss | 20 |
Description | Physiological responses from 20 unselected volunteer participants were recorded. An artificial neural network (ANN) was first trained to recognise a variety of recognition responses, then used to predict a precognitive psi target based on participants' physiological responses to concepts related to the target. The ANN trained on all participants' data successfully reduced the possible target pool from 8 to 2 in 8 out of 20 cases. For individually trained networks, this increased to 11 out of 20 cases. Although non-significant, ANN prediction was more successful for those participants exhibiting psychological androgyny (t = 1.194, df = 17, p = 0.125 1-tailed, ns) and field independence (t = -1.320, df =18, p = 0.102 1-tailed, ns). |
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