esp experiment

**ffrr** · 27th September 2003

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/esp.html

try it!!!

LOL I'm totaly sceptic and it does my head in cause it's right EVERY bloody time, even when you try and trick it!!!

**Undertaker** · 27th September 2003

Originally Posted by ffrr

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/esp.html

try it!!!

LOL I'm totaly sceptic and it does my head in cause it's right EVERY bloody time, even when you try and trick it!!!

FAKE

cards are totally different on the next screen

**ffrr** · 28th September 2003

Originally Posted by Undertaker

FAKE

cards are totally different on the next screen

u genuis!!!!! lol I need to quit doing those bongs in the morning!

I'll email the guy and see what he has to say!

hahaha just read some of the user comments that the guy has put on the page and after realising it was a trick, most of them don't make much sense like this one;

quote;

From Milica H.
Dr. Pickover, regarding the ESP test, in one case you guessed correctly and once you were wrong - and I did the ESP experiment only twice. Does the explanation have something to do with clicking on eyes icons before and after we have chosen the card? I think there is a calculation of probabilities. The choice of eye icon could give you a clue which card we choose. Or at least that is my theory as to how it works. Anyway, quite impressive! Will you announce the results of ESP experiment? Best wishes, Milica, Researcher

errr.... how could it have been wrong if none of the cards were there to begin with lol

**gadgetman** · 28th September 2003

I chose the King of hearts
Then it wasn't there anymore?

**RaggoVibes** · 28th September 2003

this is a very old one

**ffrr** · 28th September 2003

I got an auto response email back from the guy;

Hi,

Thanks for your note. How did you find my web page?

You were perceptive! It's great you discovered the ESP trick. Try it on friends and watch their faces.

What do you like best/worst at my site? Do you have any suggestions on how to make my web site better?

I don't know how many people realize it's a trick, but all the responses are real. I performed this experiment as research for a chapter in my recent book Dreaming the Future.

The book goes into more detail about this "ESP test" and discusses human beliefs in general. In the book, I also discuss an even more interesting study called "The Antinous Prophecies." As I say in my book:
"My goal in conducting this little demonstration was to emphasize how easily we can be fooled and how great our will is to believe in the spiritual, the paranormal, and phenomena beyond science. I hope this simple test reinforces the need for skeptical thinking when evaluating claims of the paranormal."
My guess is that most people see it's a trick after a few tries, but some don't. I don't have statistics that tell me the ratio of the two classes of people. (After all, only a small set in both classes e-mail me.)

I believe the universe has facets we'll never truly understand -- the universe is mysterious -- but at heart I'm skeptical about ESP until we have very conclusive scientific results.

Regards, Cliff

there you go!