[extropy-chat] Psi again--a challenge

[Damien Broderick]

Psi, sigh... I know, I know, the general assessment of this list is 
strongly against the very possibility of paranormal perception being real, 
rather than a congeries of errors, illusions, delusions and fakes.

However, I'd like to suggest that everyone here put in a couple of minutes 
once a week for a month on the following real-world psi-application 
experiment in precognition:

http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk/~fiona/GambIntro.html

It is run by Dr. Fiona Steinkamp of the Koestler parapsychology unit at 
Edinburgh university. Her experiment is simple but quite elegant. It 
includes some features designed to offset usual biases: for example, the 
figural options shown are shuffled on each presentation, and nobody can 
submit more than one response per week. (This is *not* a challenge to 
hackers to work around this and inundate poor Fiona's experiment with loads 
of phoney data. Please play nice.)

I'll be interested to see what she finds. I should stress, perhaps, that I 
have no role nor personal stake in this experiment.

Damien Broderick