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I dropped into the Wellcome Collection's exhibition yesterday when I had a wee bit of time to kill - and happened to catch an entertaining talk about "hidden" messages in speech and songs when played backwards. It's clearly nonsense, but also an interesting demonstration of how you can hear something if you want to hear it.
martin | 08.05.19 - 7:22 a.m. | #
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I suspect it didn't work then and won't work today because you're not a believer. You need to believe in order to transmit ;)
Blue Witch | 08.05.19 - 8:01 a.m. | #
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You should have sent out the signal about the 8 o'clock session earlier. I missed it now!
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 08.05.19 - 8:20 a.m. | #
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Statistically should we get 1/5 for each option, or are people naturally drawn to black squares more than blue wavy lines, plus are they influenced by existing guesses?
Still Anon | 08.05.19 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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Sorry, I need 3 days notice.
B | 08.05.19 - 9:16 a.m. | #
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DG - could you confirm your approximate location? Are you doing this in Bow or elsewhere?
Geller | 08.05.19 - 9:23 a.m. | #
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it could be affected by distance,your respondents are scattered over a very wide area.
If the telepathic waves don't reach very far, it would simply result in even results throughout.
amber | 08.05.19 - 9:28 a.m. | #
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It not beyond the realms of extreme possibilities that someone will get them all right...it would not prove that someone has ESP. Conversely someone may have ESP and on purpose answer some wrongly in order to hide their ESP.
E | 08.05.19 - 9:30 a.m. | #
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Should have at least done this on a Sunday or Bank Holiday; some of us have got work/jobs to do and can't be hanging about on-line all morning playing silly games.
Vin | 08.05.19 - 9:34 a.m. | #
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Let's do some cold reading...
"Roundel!"
Peter | 08.05.19 - 10:19 a.m. | #
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Oh! I missed the first three (the 10am by minutes - damn!) but I shall have a go at the last couple! What fun!
Cornish Cockney | 08.05.19 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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I'm out now due to an ill-timed meeting. It's been fun..
Sally | 08.05.19 - 11:21 a.m. | #
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The Wellcome Collection exhibition was all fascinating, except for the film with the cards being placed on the glass table.
Bob L-S | 08.05.19 - 12:22 p.m. | #
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I got 0% right which proves why I never play the lottery!!
Cornish Cockney | 08.05.19 - 12:33 p.m. | #
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Needed something more, perhaps a situation description of the room where the cards were revealed, then I would have had something to concentrate on and get them all correct!
SP | 08.05.19 - 12:35 p.m. | #
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I have just read your blog today,DG. If I had any ESP at all,I might have read it earlier and taken part in the experiments. I didn't, so I think that proves that I can't pick up thought waves across London.
In fact, the only mind I can read belongs to 'im indoors. 😉
Jo W | 08.05.19 - 12:42 p.m. | #
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Good fun with interesting results even with only a small set of 'subjects'
Kevin | 08.05.19 - 12:45 p.m. | #
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Percentage of people picking 'a card that hadn't come up yet'...
1st experiment: 100% (obviously)
2nd experiment: 88%
3rd experiment: 57%
4th experiment: 68%
5th experiment: 58%
Always more than half.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.05.19 - 12:53 p.m. | #
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Thank you for an interesting post. Maybe I didn't get them all right because I am too far away (about 10500 miles).
Jacqui | 08.05.19 - 12:57 p.m. | #
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Must admit that a Kinks record being played on Radio Caroline triggered my (wrong) choice of the Wave symbol !
Gerry | 08.05.19 - 1:00 p.m. | #
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By way of a coincidence that maybe hard to believe recently I won a day's set of shows on statistics by a maths magician, and he came to our school this very day to give them. His second experiment was with the ESP cards.
He showed the Cambridge experiment from the 60s, and the participant each time was the student who had won the previous coin toss game. Needless to say each student got three out of three ESP predictions correct at odds of 125/1. I worked out the magic during the third run, the second student guessed the same three shapes as the first one so masking the trickery.
In conclusion, I believe in ESP but DG does not have the ability to transmit. My excellent result today supports this hypothesis.
Ken | 08.05.19 - 2:53 p.m. | #
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One of my favourite probability experiments (which I've read about but not tried) is to ask someone to simulate the repeated tossing of a coin by writing H or T multiple times. If you compare that to an actual coin toss you find that people are reluctant to have repeating values, and these crop up less often than they would in real coin toss data. That's similar to some of the effects mentioned in the commentary.
I'm impressed that DG has come up with some insightful conclusions from an experiment that's obviously bollocks.
Eric | 08.05.19 - 6:26 p.m. | #
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I think you have been extremely perceptive today DG. You had the foresight to choose a rather wet and cold day to conduct your experiment in the comfort of your own home without having to brave the elements to compile today’s article. (Unless you are in sunnier climes.)
Bob S | 08.05.19 - 7:39 p.m. | #
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And exactly where did my earlier 2 comments (commets 1 and 2 this morning) explaining all thiss go? Eh?
dg writes: Your comment at 8:01am is still there.
Blue Witch | 08.05.19 - 7:57 p.m. | #
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I believed, but missed out on getting the first one correct because I was buying a newspaper.
Thus it must be a fact....
QSP | 08.05.19 - 9:10 p.m. | #
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I bought the first 12 issues of the Unexplained. May still be in a cupboard at my parents. Remember being spooked by the tales of spontaneous human combustion.
Andy V | 09.05.19 - 6:57 a.m. | #
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