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Rather than use my own words to summarise the various types of
psi experiment Dean Radin investigated in his book, I have taken
the liberty of copying two pages from Chapter 14 of his book, where
he does that for us. This outline is simply meant to give a bit
more information, and any serious investigator should buy the book,
and read it page by page.
Chapter 14.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. -
Niels Bohr
THE STATE OF THE ART
After a century of increasingly sophisticated investigations and
more than a thousand controlled studies with combined odds against
chance of 10 to the power of 104 to 1 (Table 14-1), there is now
strong evidence that some psi phenomena exist.¹ While this
is an impressive statistic, all it means is that the outcomes of
these experiments are definitely not due to coincidence. We've considered
other common explanations like selective reporting and variations
in experimental quality, and while those factors do moderate the
overall results, there can be little doubt that overall something
interesting is going on. It seems increasingly likely that as physics
continues to refine our understanding of the fabric of reality,
a theoretical outlook for a rational explanation for psi will eventually
be established.
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STUDIES
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TRIALS
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ODDS AGAINST CHANCE
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Dream psi
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47
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1,270 sessions
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2.2x10 to the power of 10 to 1
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Ganzfeld psi
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88
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3,145 sessions
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3.0x10 to the power of 19 to 1
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Conscious detection of being stared at.
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65
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34,097 sessions
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8.5x10 to the power of 46 to 1
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Unconscious detection of distant intention
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40
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1,055 sessions
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1,000 to 1
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Unconscious detection of being stared at
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15
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379 sessions
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100 to 1
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Dice PK
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169
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2.6 million dice tossed
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2.6x10 to the power of 76 to 1
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RNG PK
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595
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1.1 billion random events
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3,052 to 1
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Combined
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1,019
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1.3x10 to the power of 104 to 1
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Table 14-1.
A meta-meta-analysis of the classes of experimental evidence considered
in this book. The number of studies listed, and the odds against
chance, are adjusted for potential selective reporting biases using
the trim and fill algorithm. The combined results indicate that these experimental results are unlikely to be due to coincidence
or dumb luck. Something else is going on. Genuine psi offers an
increasingly plausible interpretation.
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