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[Adela Torres <torresad@...>]

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Science, vol 284, 2 Abril 1999, pag. 39:

ESP ROAD TEST

Billed as "the world's largest ever test of psychic ability," a
computerized coin toss will make the rounds of fairs, shopping centers, and
museums in Britain over the next year. But even if the test gets results,
what's being measured won't be clear.

Launched last month during National Science Week, the "Mind Machine," the
brainchild of University of Hertfordshire psychologist Richard Wiseman has
a computer that electronically flips a coin. Viewers touch the screen to
predict heads or tails. Wiseman, who expects to collect data from 250,000
tosses, says this "will allow us to determine ... with a huge degree of
certainty ... whether people really can influence computers."

Or something. Wiseman acknowledges that nonrandom results might point
either to psychokinesis (the mind influencing the computer) or to
precognition (the mind anticipating the computer). "This is always a
problem with this type of parapsychology," he says. "However, I would be
happy enough to demonstrate any effect at all".



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Adela

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