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Volume 10: Number 1: Article 1
An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning
Jessica Utts, Division of Statistics, University of California, Davis,
CA 95616
In the range between what social scientists call a small and medium
effect. That means that it is reliable enough to be replicated in properly
conducted experiments, with sufficient trials to achieve the long-run
statistical results needed for replicability.
A number of other patterns have been found, suggestive of how to conduct
more productive experiments and applied psychic functioning. For instance,
it doesn't appear that a sender is needed. Precognition, in which the
answer is known to no one until a future time, appears to work quite
well. Recent experiments suggest that if there is a psychic sense then
it works much like our other five senses, by detecting change. Given
that physicists are currently grappling with an understanding of time,
it may be that at a psychic sense exists that scans the future for major
change, much as our eyes scan the environment for visual change or our
ears allow us to respond to sudden changes in sound.
It is recommended that future experiments focus on understanding how
this phenomenon works, and on how to make it as useful as possible.
There is little benefit to continuing experiments designed to offer
proof, since there is little more to be offered to anyone who does not
accept the current collection of data.
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