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Laird Wrote: (2018-10-16, 03:37 PM) -- Yes, we have a fair bit of control over our hosting account, including cPanel, FTP, and shell access. PHP is a good idea too as our forum and wiki software - My...
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    Thread: Woohoo! My first significant ESP test!
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Typoz Wrote: (2018-10-16, 02:11 PM) -- I like the idea of having some or most of the code server-side. While it may appear less transparent, it might be considered less open to manipulation. Perhaps?...
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    Thread: Woohoo! My first significant ESP test!
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Laird Wrote: (2018-10-16, 02:00 PM) -- Nice! If you're willing to put together something that you think you would be most comfortable using and most likely to get positive results on, whilst eliminat...
Posted by Oliver in Members' Experiments , 2018-10-16, 02:06 PM
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    Thread: Woohoo! My first significant ESP test!
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Laird Wrote: (2018-10-13, 08:15 AM) -- I've investigated the Javascript running this test and can't find any issues with it. I looked at your Java code testing the site too (which you posted in anoth...
Posted by Oliver in Members' Experiments , 2018-10-16, 01:01 PM
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  Information Thread: ESP test and chance
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As reported in my other thread in this folder, I've been doing this (http://psychiclibrary.com/beyondBooks/apps/esptest/) ESP test. Both myself and some other people have got significant results. In o...
Posted by Oliver in Members' Experiments , 2018-10-09, 03:04 PM
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    Thread: Woohoo! My first significant ESP test!
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Another 9/25 on my first try just now. This one had a bit of a decline effect where I got most of the first 10 guesses right, but then didn't do so well as the test went on. The reported effect where ...
Posted by Oliver in Members' Experiments , 2018-10-04, 03:05 PM
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    Thread: Woohoo! My first significant ESP test!
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Another 10/25. During the test I was doing lots of loving-kindness meditation for the colors. It might sound a bit silly, but I repeated metta phrases for each of the colors. So during an ordinary met...
Posted by Oliver in Members' Experiments , 2018-10-03, 01:06 PM
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    Thread: Woohoo! My first significant ESP test!
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Two more 9/25 tests just now. Screenshots below
Posted by Oliver in Members' Experiments , 2018-10-02, 02:57 PM
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    Thread: The Good Place
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Back on the topic of the show, I watched some of the first season and quite liked it but my wife didn't find it exciting enough to keep watching. I was proud of myself though, because I guessed after ...
Posted by Oliver in Philosophical Discussions , 2018-10-02, 08:47 AM
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    Thread: Michael Prescott wants to ban social media
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I believe social media is on balance a good thing. Yes there's bad stuff but it allows people to communicate who would otherwise be very lonely. If I didn't have a forum like this to discuss my psi in...
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    Thread: New German "Randi Prize"
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Chris Wrote: (2018-10-01, 11:41 AM) -- As Doug said, that kind of performance would be "so awesome as to border on the miraculous". I'd be inclined to think there might have been some problem with th...
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    Thread: Woohoo! My first significant ESP test!
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Tried two experiments over lunch just now. First I got 6/25, second 10/25. Screenshot for the second below. Probability of 10/25 is 0.017, and combined the three tests are 25/75, p=0.0047. The firs...
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    Thread: Woohoo! My first significant ESP test!
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Typoz Wrote: (2018-10-01, 10:42 AM) -- I just tried it, using symbols. I got the first two right. Then seemed to get most wrong. End result, 8/25 or 32%. Tried again with colours. Got the first on...
Posted by Oliver in Members' Experiments , 2018-10-01, 10:58 AM
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    Thread: New German "Randi Prize"
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Chris Wrote: (2018-10-01, 09:48 AM) -- 11 or more out of 25 would only be odds of 200 to 1, though. -- Right, but even 11, if repeated in 4 trials (so 44/100), would surpass a million to 1. And acc...
Posted by Oliver in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2018-10-01, 10:08 AM
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    Thread: New German "Randi Prize"
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Chris Wrote: (2018-09-30, 06:35 PM) -- I'm sure Randi is a tricky customer, and there were other unfair aspects of the prize than the huge odds against chance required for success. But I find it v...
Posted by Oliver in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2018-10-01, 08:44 AM
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  Big Grin Thread: Woohoo! My first significant ESP test!
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Hi everyone, new member here. I got my first significant score on an ESP test (http://psychiclibrary.com/beyondBooks/apps/esptest/ (http://psychiclibrary.com/beyondBooks/apps/esptest/)) just now. Scre...
Posted by Oliver in Members' Experiments , 2018-09-28, 02:56 PM
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