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Originally Posted by jacob  Being an Electronics Engineer I can understand the idea of what you propose but I don't understand how to apply this actually in a psi research.
Any concrete ideas, .NetRoller? |
This is not my area of expertise but I think the following might be what .Net Roller is suggesting (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error-c...How_it_works):
Make a code using 3 zener cards (or one ganzfeld image, or one remote viewing target) per character and convert a text message into that code. Try to send the message psychically many many times.
Take the most frequent zener card (or ganzfeld image, or remote viewing target) recieved in all the trials for each position in the transmission. This sequence, when decoded should give the original message.
Someone with more expertise could propose a more efficient code, and a statistician could probably suggest how many trials should be run based on effect size suggested by experimental data.
However, I don't think this will really refute skeptical criticisms that the effect size is caused by flaws in the experimental design. Whatever flaw is giving the false positives would be still be giving them eventhough the data encodes a message.
Also, if you are getting a statistically significant result in the raw trials I don't see how you could get a negative result by letting the sequence of images represent a coded message.
What this could do is help measure the signal to noise ratio and bandwidth of psi if you accept that the experiments are detecting a real paranormal phenomena.