UNITED KINGDOM. Want to get involved in a new research project, using mobile phones and text messaging to test claims that some people know who is calling them before they answer? The experience seems to be quite common, but is coincidence, telepathy or precognition the explanation?
The Perrott-Warrick Project on unexplained human abilities has so far produced above chance experimental results with telephone and e-mail telepathy. Now project director Dr Rupert Sheldrake (right) needs 10 UK-based research helpers to test whether precognition is responsible, using automated text messages. Interested? Read on.
The results of the earlier research, in which individuals were asked to identify who, out of four people, was calling them or e-mailing them, can be found here. The next stage is to focus on precognition as a possible explanation.
What is required of the Research Helpers? Rupert Sheldrake explains:
For these new tests, subjects need three, rather than four, contacts. Subjects register online at http://www.hrob.net/precog/pokus.php. When registering, they give the names and mobile phone numbers of three people they know well who have agreed to take part in the test. [At present, the text message test works only in the UK, so only applicants resident in the UK are eligible.]
The system then e-mails the subjects and asks him/her who is about to send a message. The subject sends his/her guess by replying by text message. The system then selects one of these three people at random and sends her a text message asking him/her to text the subject. This message is sent back to the system, which forwards it to the subject.
This process is repeated after a random time delay. There are six trials altogether. With three senders, the hit rate by chance would be 33%. Are some people?s scores higher than this?
First of all, each Research Helper will do this test himself or herself, and then recruit five other people to serve as subjects in the test. People who are contacts in one test can be subjects in another, and it will probably be easier to recruit subjects if the Research Helper serves as one of their contacts, and also does the online registration for them.
Each helper will choose a special group name, which serves as a password enabling him or her to gain online access to all the data from his or her group. This group name should have five letters. The Research Helper can then access the group?s results online by going to http://precog.mobifi.com/reports/mainre ... &ROWSTO=20 and entering the group name in the group name box.
On completion of the project Research Helpers will receive ?50 and a certificate of research experience from the Perrott-Warrick Project. They will also be eligible for taking part in further research projects as Perrott-Warrick Work Scholars.
If you are interested in being a Research Helper as part of the Perrott-Warrick project, please e-mail Rupert Sheldrake (sheldrake@sheldrake.org) with some brief information about yourself: sex, age, family situation, where you live and work, your interest in this project and any experience that might be relevant. Put in the subject line of your email the word ?precog?.
www.ParanormalReview.com will be reporting on the results in due course. Meanwhile, visitors can check out our previous stories on Sheldrake and his research by typing his name into the SEARCH box at the top of the page.
The Perrott-Warrick Project is supported by the Perrott-Warrick Fund, administered by Trinity College, Cambridge.
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