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From: wasser@viking.DEC (John A. Wasser)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Parapsychology Experiment Now
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Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 15:46:55 EDT
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I think the discussion of paranormal abilities has reached a point where it is
time to generate some solid empirical data!  The design of the experiment is 
going to be tricky... It is difficult to make sure proper controls are carried
out when you work in the nebulous realm of the Networks.  I think we should
concentrate on precognition because it is so much easier to control than
postcognition.  I will make every effort to insure that the experiment is
carried out according to proper scientific methods.

I would like to invite anyone interested in testing their precognitive
ability to send me a mail message (see the addresses below) that contains
a guess of the following form:

	Ten lines of text containing nothing but fifty decimal digits.
	No spaces or or other characters between the digits.
	No spaces or other characters before or after the digits.
	No lines between the lines of digits.

You may include any comments you wish before or after the block of
digits.  These comments will be ignored for the purpose of scoring.

After a reasonable amount of time I will write a program to generate
a random set of digits in the same format as above.  This answer
will be posted to net.physics and that posting is what you have to
guess.  The digits in your answer will be compared to the digits
in the same positions in the answer and your score will be the number
of digits correctly guessed.  

The highest score over the 95% confidence level will be awarded a
tasteful brass plaque.

		-John A. Wasser

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P.S.  Please forward this announcement to anyone you know who might be
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