ESP test and chance

As reported in my other thread in this folder, I've been doing this ESP test. Both myself and some other people have got significant results. In order to confirm that there isn't some problem with the website, I made a quick-and-dirty automated test (in Java, using Selenium webdriver for Firefox) to test colors in precognitive mode.

The attached Java code (rename .txt to .java) runs with colors, and does 30 runs of 25 trials. It uses Java's ThreadLocalRandom class to generate a number between 0 and 4, which is then used to select a color.

The raw data is in the attached text file. The highest score was 9, the lowest was 0, and collectively the results were slightly below chance (137/750, on a binomial distribution p=0.89). This is expected as it's just randomly generated guesses.

So for some reason, humans on this site seem to be getting consistently higher scores than a random number generator. I believe this is evidence of a real psi effect, as the null hypothesis is unlikely given the statistical difference between human experimenters and a computer.

I will rerun the automated test in clairvoyant mode to see if there are higher results with that, and also to see if the test ever reaches 11 or 12 (which several humans on this site have reached). But to me, as my first semi-scientific parapsychology experiment, this is exciting evidence!

Great stuff Oliver. Glad to see you do this!

It is interesting evidence indeed. I was once a participant in an actual Telekinesis event, which made me question ALOT of things! I find that it's very exciting and energising to be actively involved in PSI in a general sense, especially when other people are witnessing/participating/sharing that journey with you. I've found that there is a world of difference between reading about it, and being part of it. 

Good luck with the testing (not that you'll need it!   ).