Peter Bancel's 2019 presentation on psychokinesis

Newly uploaded to ResearchGate, here's a paper based on Peter Bancel's presentation at the 2019 Parapsychological Association Convention, entitled "A Reassessment of Some Micro-PK Results":
Abstract. This article examines four episodes in micro-PK research: the work of Helmut Schmidt; the PEAR benchmark experiment and its replication; a controversial meta-analysis; and the Global Consciousness Project. These works, at first glance, seem open to disparate interpretations, or even to be in tension with each other. It is argued that, when all is said and done, Schmidt’s interpretation of micro-PK data provides a unifying explanation: that of a goal-oriented effect which is expressed by rare, gifted persons.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication...PK_Results

Actually, this paper covers fairly well trodden ground for Bancel.

With regard to Schmidt's work, he emphasises the effort that was made to recruit good subjects and also the equivalence principle Schmidt formulated, reflecting the observation that different random number generators behaved similarly regardless of the detailed mechanisms involved. Bancel sees this as an expression of the fact that PK is a goal-oriented effect.

Then he summarises his previous work, arguing that the failure of the large-scale replication of the PEAR studies was only to be expected because the replication was under-powered, the design having failed to take into account that the PEAR results were largely produced by just two outstanding subjects. Then he moves on to the meta-analysis by Bösch et al., and argues that the heterogeneity of the results considered can't be accounted for by publication bias and other questionable research practices (but can be accounted for by the fact that some studies used selected subjects and some didn't). And finally he presents some of his analyses of the Global Consciousness Project results, which he interprets as evidence that the effect is a goal-oriented one.