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The Twitter psychic trials begin

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Twitter, Blog on June 1, 2009 at 1:54 pm

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So-called psychics often claim to have the power of remote viewing, that is the ability to identify a distant and undisclosed location using no more than their psychic ability. Richard Wiseman is “pretty skeptical” about such things, so has teamed up with the New Scientist magazine to conduct a hopefully not so little Twitter experiment.

Wiseman claims the American government has spent “millions of dollars examining remote viewing” so has come up with an experiment to see if it has been money well spent. Starting at 3pm GMT tomorrow, and then every day this week, Wiseman will travel to a different and undisclosed location which has been randomly selected.

“Once there, I will send a Tweet” Wiseman explains “asking everyone to Tweet about their thoughts concerning the nature of the location.” Thirty minutes after that, he will send another Tweet that links to a website with photographs of five locations to include the real one and four decoys. People can then vote as to which they think is the real target location.

“If the majority of people select the correct target then the trial will count as a hit, otherwise it will count as a miss” Wiseman concludes, adding “Three or more hits in four trials will be seen as supporting the existence of extrasensory perception.”

In order to participate simply follow RichardWiseman.

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