Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-viking!wasser From: wasser@viking.DEC (John A. Wasser) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Parapsychology Experiment Now Message-ID: <2896@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 15:46:55 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.2896 Posted: Tue Jun 25 15:46:55 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 06:16:26 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 39 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 Work address: ARPAnet: WASSER%VIKING.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Usenet: {allegra,Shasta,decvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-viking!wasser P.S. Please forward this announcement to anyone you know who might be interested (including other news groups).