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Volume 9: Number 3: Article 2
Establishing Prevalence of Commonalities in Randomly Paired Individuals as a Method for Assessing Synchronicity
Thomas C. Rowe and Douglas B. Henderson, Dept. of Psychology, University
of Wisconsin at Stevens Pt., Stevens Pt., WI 54481-3897
Randomly paired male or female college students were instructed to
converse for 45 minutes to find as many coincidental events as possible.
These items were then checked for rarity against a larger random sample
of that population. The results are discussed in terms of developing
a methodology for assessing commonalities among a population of unrelated
college students. This method may ultimately prove useful in determining
baseline rates of commonality which could be used to evaluate synchronicity
in other populations such as reunited birth relatives.
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