This follows on
my first post about my DIY psi experiment.
Psi-sceptic explanations to consider:
- "It was just a coincidence" – prevented by statistical calculation
- "You analysed the data various ways until you found a way of making it look good" – prevented by this post, which commits me to a particular methodology before I conduct the experiment. I will post the data whether it shows an effect or not.
- "You quit when you were ahead" – prevented by this post; I have decided on the number of trials in advance: 6000
- "You lied" – this I can't prove to you, but I know for my own self. You can try replicate.
- "The dice are biased" – To control this, I rolled 600 virtual dice on the 16th of April and made no attempt to psychically influence them. I got: 984 ones, 973 twos, 1007 threes, 1015 fours, 964 fives, 1057 sixes
Three things that might help the psi effect – worth mentioning to would-be replicators:
- According to an article in 'Evidence for psi thirteen empirical research reports' edited by Ben Gortzel, psi effects are strongest around 13:47 sidereal time; I will use sidereal.app/calculate to optimise this
- It's the day of a full moon; Dean Radin has investigated if this affects psi
- random.org uses a random number generator in Dublin, Ireland, about one mile from where I conducted the experiment
