Agape Experiment: Testing Group Telepathy (statistical study in progress)

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Agape ExperimentTesting Group
Telepathy(statistical study in progress)

• Dr Bernard Auriol
• (EuroPA meeting, November 2003)

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A Group Experiment
H1 The rate of hits is increased by redundancy
due to vote. H0 The rate of hits is not
increased by vote. Protocol A transmitting
group (1-16 senders) and a receiving group (1-16
voters) were located in two isolate
rooms. Everything was monitored and recorded by
computers.
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Targets type either pictures (2) or words (3
or 5)
Participants any voluntary (either sheep or
goat) sender or receiver role generally chosen by
the participants 274 female (2/3) 145 male (1/3)
240 telepathic ESP group sessions 27,845
collective trials (250,000 individual trials)
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Results
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Variance of success got by vote(30 trials per
salvo)
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Variance of intervals

• To reach a better evaluation, we note the
  interval (? number of misses)
• between two consecutive hits, and check the
  variance of these intervals
• (random or not ?). 

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Variance of the intervals
gt p lt 0.05
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Conclusionof the hypothesis test
This type of group experiment did not increase
the psi-hitting rate regarding either individual
answers or answers obtained by vote. 
No improvement of the Signal to Noise ratio
(S/N) (redundancy got from majority vote is not
effective). 
Variance was significantly weak with two targets.
But strong for three targets and normal for five.
Are these variations explainable by
socio-psychological attitudes ?
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Prospective Covariance Analysis

• of success cases

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Collective trials significantly different from
chance (p lt0.05)
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The significant variables were selected thanks to
a stepwise procedure and kept under a threshold
of 5. We get significant parameters with a
p-value close to 0.0001
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Sybil(Systematic bilocality)
We plan to devise a protocol to test the
following hypothesis We can hope for success
with groups only if we build sub-groups so that
there is more affinity between receivers and
senders than among receivers. A simple
sociometric test should be enough to achieve
this, provided the results for each sessions
help to distribute the roles of transmitter and
receiver.