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Automated tests for telephone telepathy using mobile phones Rupert Sheldrake Ph.D., Pamela Smart, Leonidas Avraamides

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AUTOMATED TESTS FOR TELEPHONE TELEPATHY USING MOBILE PHONES Rupert Sheldrake, PhD., Pamela Smart, and Leonidas Avraamides Abstract: Objective: To carry out automated experiments on mobile phones to test for telepathy in connection with telephone calls. Study method: Subjects, aged from 10 to 83, registered online with the names and mobile telephone numbers of 3 or 2 senders. A computer selected a sender at random, and asked him to call the subject via the computer. The computer then asked the subject to guess the caller's name, and connected the caller and the subject after receiving the guess. A test consisted of 6 trials. Interactions evaluated: The effects of subjects' sex and age and the effects of time delays on guesses. Main outcome measure: The proportion of correct guesses of the caller's name, compared with the 33.3% or 50% mean chance expectations. Main results: In 2080 trials with 3 callers there were 869 hits (41.8%), above the 33.3% chance level (P