Rupert Sheldrake: Telephone Telepathy

[lamagiduneinstant76]

This is Wonderful! okay, They are wonderful (and, yes, as sisters too) the experiment went exactly as expected, even to "the skeptic". yes, done the phoning at the same time thing. and the reason for THIS kind of experiment, 'blahman' is that some people learn with their heart, in fact even Better, as a former 'thinker', i can attest EMOTIONS ARE THE KEY TO EVERYTHING.

[Fournier46]

forty-two... 42! sorry, Hitchhiker's guide moment ^_^

[MrJordanisking]

i dont know about this, but i know of an instance of telephone telepathy that we've probably all experienced at least once. ever dial a friend, put the phone to your ear waiting to hear a ring, but instead you hear nothing. you say "hello?" and find out that the friend you tried to call is already on the other end of the line because at the same time you called them, they called you. could be coincidence but thats happened to me a couple times. "like" if its happened to you! im curious

[watchingneil]

wow these sisters are meant to be 'so close' but they seem like total bitches.

[kelslarrr]

is it carol vauderman (not sure how its spelt) doing the voice over? x

[TheFilm2001forall]

Modern cartomancy: phone. I doubt she can guess a wrong number call.

[christschinwon]

I'd love to try some experiments with Coleen Nolan, & they don't involve telepathy

[FatherChrismas]

So many things are sold to our desires.

[Samhiuys]

I believe that this is real. You know when I play games, I always guess exactly what result I'll get. I can also guess what people will say next, I just know it in my head. I also have a feeling when someone is going to come home. I also can guess who is calling me.

[glennbowieandroy]

as much i love rupert, this experiment seems lame to me :/

[KidInsight]

That's TV for ya D:

[MindiRapazzinild]

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[theblahman]

@MindiRapazzinild The only pursuit of enlightenment is through knowledge. This mumbo-jumbo you refer to only hinders our intellectual development.

[Batamon1997]

James Randi need a parody site called James Brandi.

[Happyascanbe1]

Let see--we are either dealing here with phenomenon completely unknown to the modern science--or this bunch of unscientific minds thought it's OK to pull off just a small deception for the "greater good". Why he has picked up sisters? Am i being too cynical if i suggest that's probably because they are less likely too have one amongs them who is going to blow the whistle. The terrible failing of the sceptical sister seems like what every teleevangelist con would do.

[Wespa]

@Happyascanbe1 They usually choose people who knows eatchother very well, because then results are better. This is not complete unknown to modern science since there is many studies that is done with telepathy and telephone telepathy. Yes the cause and how it works is unknown but there is a measurable results that shows that something is going on. Maybe quantum physics has the answer.

[zanaelf]

I would not be surprised that the one with the shortest hair was the one with the most wrong answers

[LemonG08]

Rupert looks like Paul paul Mccartney now

[BobBingleboo]

interesting



[LendMeYourHand]

Guessing proves to create frustration & worry, which in turn results in a fail. Phone telepathy is most successful with a sleeping mind. This can be experienced through hypnogogic states of alpha-theta, where the persons voice is received through claireaudience. Your mom calls your name, you wake up, the phone rings & it is the one who was calling your name. So it is very relevant of personal connections with loved ones or people that think strongly about you before calling.

[ClubBangerTV]

@LendMeYourHand you know what I really want to be discussed? The connection between twins. How both twins will think the same thing at the exact same time. I consider that a phenomenon and I'm surprised people don't question it often.

[LendMeYourHand]

@ClubBangerTV There is videos on it, & it is beyond profound. I didnt start getting phone clairaudience till after i was 20. i suspect it was from my deep search into my other strange abilities since birth which consisted mostly of Precognitive recordings of future events in deep sleep. The women in my family had always had this so called mystical attribute. I know from my life experience that Psychical research is NOT a waste of time. People are born into it, while others dont have it.

[MichaelWithstand]

interest, will, desire all comes in effect thus mood plays a part too.

The one making the phone call should in her earnest try to think about the one she's calling(will it sincerely)

And the mind plays a trick too becoming guessing. To shut the mind from guessing is necessity.

[Imad9494]

its just guessing not anything else......

[1245678987]

@Imad9494 prove it

[SuperAlexrios]

this is very stupid ,

[yowzephyr]

@SuperAlexrios  Because.......?

[SuperAlexrios]

@yowzephyr because it is natural when people khow not only who is calling but who love them who cheat them etc i khow when a woman desire me i fell the heat of their bodies

[yowzephyr]

@SuperAlexrios  Oh. Now I see. That's why the telephone telepathy experiment is stupid. Thank you. Now I understand. Whew! For a moment there I thought you didn't know what you were talking about.

[Pluffo]

What I don't understand here is why these sisters don't get tested more. Conduct a couple of hundred trials. If the hit rate still is 50%, THEN you have a real bloody result.

What would have happend if this experiment was not successful? Would it still have been broadcasted?

[cmario00]

@Pluffo You have a strong argument there. It wouldn't have.

[MetaphysicsAddict]

@Pluffo As of 2003, Sheldrake had performed over 1,000 trials like these (with other people). The average hit rate is over 40% (and much higher if you only work with certain types of creative people). Sheldrake admits when trials are not successful.

[ianspence2010]

@MetaphysicsAddict Thats because Creative people are more open to fun and interesting experiments. Everyone of us has this ability. If only we believed it! There lies the problem. This special energy is so subtle that only a well open and concentrated mind can use it as a tool. Mediums are not talking to the dead, whatever they say. they are picking the information up from the audience.

[ianspence2010]

@ianspence2010 Even when after a few months of training the mind you are able to 'work' in this very subtle area it is incredibly easy at the time to lose grip of it. A simple thought of something, a sound, anything can disturb ones concentration and bring you back to normality. one can develop these abilities but its best to start as a child.

[leigh2490]

@Pluffo he's done thousands and thousands of the same experiment with the same results

[jk41]

I love there personality haha there pretty cool

[TheTails15]

Wow. Psychologie is nothing else!!!

[sergiomats]

This kind of experience isn't what should happen if naturalism were true.

[icebear1946]

try a youtube search on 'Julian Jaynes and pre-flood language'

[givebirthathome]

@icebear1946 Sounds interesting..I will try Julian Jaynes and pre-flood language

[romanianskill]

well that all depends doesn't it, as each flip is an independant event, statistically it should, but in reality it doesn't, just try it, flip a coin 100000000 times and just see, infact i'm going to do that now.

...

done it, you'll be shocked to learn that it landed on heads every single times, i know, weird, but that's the way the world works maths boy.

[SexyMelon]

I don't think I have once in my life experienced "telephone telepathy". On the other hand... I think I've had something similar experience with IM or YouTube comments like this one.

Maybe if these things are real, these studies could be used to lock down on these sensations, so we could actually use them.

[DreamingWorlds]

Ann shook her confidence - lowering her correct answers ... but she came around and did great ... we are ALL Telepathic ... is just not developed because for one its not a widely held concept as being true and 2 the ability is atrophyed becuase we dont use it ... Once most of the human race holds it as viable and normal we will be able to send complex communication to once another .. even foregoing language and the limitations of language ... we will send entire ideas and concepts without words!

[744682532]

They should have a TV show, they're hilarious.

[affluence8]

I have many different people call me. But then my cell rings I can tell by the ring. ( the ring is the same for all ) who is calling. x-wife, or daughter, or in-law, Client, or Mom. :)

[romanianskill]

SHUT UP

[toomy1995]

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[romanianskill]

i could flip a coin 100 times and the are that it will land 50 heads 50 tails... the reality of that it far different, i wouldn't be in shock and awe if it landed 90 times on tails and then 10 times on heads.

all that time you spent in physics lectures was obviously wasted, statistics doesn't govern the universe as events aren't dependant on the past, that's why they are called "independant events"...

90/10 is much more that 15%, would you call that INCREDIBLY significant?

[LambadLambadLambda]

@romanianskill

Learn something about statistics man. The chances of flipping a coin and getting 90 ore more heads is 1 to a number with 17 zeros after it! Basically you could flip the damn coin for the better part of eternity and not get those results. With a large enough sample size, it becomes incredibly unlikely that an event will not correspond to it's probability. If it doesn't that means your probability is wrong. In this case, it proves it's not random guessing.

[romanianskill]

fuck off

[LambadLambadLambda]

@romanianskill

Brilliant. LOL!!

[SexyMelon]

@romanianskill Not in awe... Well, you should be. The chances of achieving that are about 1*10^16. Doesn't mean it can't happen, it only means it's about as likely as winning a government lottery a couple dozen times in a row.

Most findings in science require statistical trials, and every drug ever produced does with question. You may not trust statistics or science, but... They just work.

[romanianskill]

fuuuuuuuuuuuck oooooooooooffffff

[SexyMelon]

@romanianskill A few drops of Valerian extract should fix your nerves right back up.

[sayurmayur0]

just a message to skeptics, why not doing it for yoursef and stop talking ? i've conducted/replicated the same experiment with 5 ESP believers  and got a success rate of 50% instead of 25% (4 persone called 4 times each for a total of 16 calls ) with 8 correct guesses instead of 4 by chance . this experiment is easy to replicate ,so stop writing your flawed beliefs and go investigate yourself with ESP-ers .

[soccom8341576]

Propose a testable hypothesis about the proposed mechanism and see if that works.

If you are confident it exists, go and try explaining it.

[soccom8341576]

what's the standard deviation of that 42% success rate?

[NeuSound]

We are all telepathic. We are ONE consciousness and we are all connected, this is why telepathy and other so called paranormal events occur.

If your waiting for science to divulge this, you may be waiting a long time. There are many different agendas at work in the world not wanting us to understand what our reality is about in order to keep you ignorant and easily controlled. When you arent using your abilities , the elite can use theirs with more breathing room and without challenge.

[Applei9]

@NeuSound proof we are all one consciousness?

[KingKarolus222]

i believe in telepathy, but this video doesn't do anything to bring proof to the subject. All we need to do is to get non-believers to meditate an hour everyday for the next month or take some LSD... this will surely bring about strong enough experiences to convince anyone that we are connected beyond the five senses

[ShadesofScorpius]

What cute sisters!!! ^.^ They seem to be such nice ladies.

[83ashu4u]

how can i contact dr Sheldrake.........?

Ancient Indian yogis had researched this science on the sub conscious mind ages ago.......dr sheldrake has discovered only a thread in this trail.........yoga is not just about physical well being as it is percieved in the west.......its the science of sub conscious mind..........telepathy is very easy and only the starting point for the yogis .....even live thought reading is like a cake walk for them.

[rockgeezer666]

I have also had a few premonitions as well but only by a few minutes.The last time was the weirdest l was sat by the phone listening to some music l knew the phone was going to ring l stretched my arm out put my hand on the phone and as l touched it it rang.Now that freaked me out.

[CrazyFoxAstral]

I've had countless telepathy experiences, i'm a 100 % it's real..maybe not in the movie sci fi way, but it's defenetly real in some form

[prolixusimports1]

hi every one. I just would like to let you know that telepathy does exist. Telepathy is just another way of communicating. You can implement ideas, thoughts and feelings to another human's mind. You can even implement the feeling of hunger, pain (anything that your body could tell you to feel) etc.. or even cause a person to ridiculously forget if you wanted to, for as long as you connect to their mind. Insects and animals can do the same.

[jjjuliets]

I absolutely agree. I can do all that you mentioned. But also you can mentally go inside someones mind and actually walk around. I've done it lots of times, and I have had other people do the same and see the exact same things.

[harmsolidsnake]

I like when rupert looks straight at the camera at 2:00 or so

i bet he doesn't really want to be with an 80s band

[UnluckyGambler]

this experiment is bullshit. any statistician would see this.

[FatherChrismas]

When we desire a result, we are more likely to get it, or believe that we got it.

[joanofarcxxi]

@FatherChrismas that's still the power of the mind! this has often happened to me with my family, but not only! and I was not expecting anything.

[gabydewilde]

@FatherChrismas you didn't get it.

[83ashu4u]

Dr Rupert I completely agree wid ur researches on telepathy. But what u have found is just bits n pieces. its Like looking for a tiger in d jungle n finding only its nails. In actual practice after extreme meditation u can read anyones thoughts anywhere in the world in a matter of seconds. u can plant ur thoughts on anyone or modify them to ur wish. But everybody cant do it bcoz its d science of God nd a complete surrender to the God is needed.Also first ur mind shud b fully in ur own control

[frollun2]

with us knowing so little about telepathy i think its good to have people looking into it and trying to reveal more about the mind's potential even if it starts out with bits n pieces... its still a start.

[romanianskill]

it's 15% more than what you would expect by chance... that's not impressive at all and it's not way more than you'd expect. if you actually got it right exactly 25% of the time then that would be fucking weird. this is just stupid retard idiot shit.

i believe in brainwaves and shit but this is just dumb stupd idiot retard shit.

[mortehu]

There were 12 trials, and 4 callers. The odds against getting it right exactly 50% of the time are 1:20. The odds against getting it right exactly 25% of the time are 1:5. How can 1:5 be "fucking weird", while 1:20 isn't?

[mortehu]

Whoops, I meant 1:3.8 instead of 1:5. Amplifies my point, though.

[DemokritosAbdera]

12 trails?

Is that a joke?

I've seen vaccines tested more than 1000 times with 68% efficiency against randomized double blind placebo controlled test, those got rejected.

[MetaphysicsAddict]

as of 2003, sheldrake had published over one thousand telephone telepathy trials with an average hit rate of >40%. His work in this video is a very small sample of his work. I admit that he needs to refine his methods, but he has done many trials.

[MetaphysicsAddict]

"it's 15% more than what you would expect by chance... that's not impressive at all"

It is when it is repeated many times. Also, a subset scored much higher. "it's not way more than you'd expect"

That depends on whether or not you're expecting "chance" effects

"i believe in brainwaves and shit"

Have you read Radin, Goswami, and Standish's EEG-correlation studies?

anyway, I do think that sheldrake needs to modify his study designs a bit.

[dougeroonie]

Well... Everyone IS psychic -- we aren't told that as we grow up. Many don't believe in it. Are some more proficient than others?? sure It's great knowing who's calling but w/caller-id, it takes all the fun out of it. ;) There's a diff knowing and random guessing. But we aren't quite machines to experimented on, meaning our minds/thoughts/feelings/health­/etc. affect our abilities. The test interferes with the participants in a way and with them trying too hard. Still good results.

[Ratswivwings]

I took part in this experiment a few years ago - i did it once or twice a week for about 5 months - i had an accuracy rate of 82% which seemed suprisingly high to me - if you read his book you will find that this experiment forms a small part of a wider study on morphic resonance.

[Bilboer]

Statistically it should be 33% (1 out of 3) not 25%. The number of tries was way to short to be able to see any trend. They didn't say beforehand how many tries there there was going to be so the test leader could just stop when he was high enough to prove his point.

Telephone telepathy sounds credible since we often get a sense we know who's calling. But on an normal day we mostly get calls from persons we know and the guesswork is not that difficult.

[danf1979]

5 sisters, 1 guesser, 4 left. Thats 0,25, not 0,33.

[Bilboer]

Yes your right about that. Maybe I got it from 5:01 where only 3 sisters enters the room.

Still you've got to have long test runs to prove anything statistically. Small test series like 10-30 tries can vary a lot from what's statistically expected.

[cyberdaemon]

@danf1979 How a bout 100 people, 1 guesser and see how accurate they get it then? :D

[metacarpi]

There are four possible sisters that can call, that gives a probability of 1/4 of guessing correctly due to chance.

20 calls isn't going to make a statistically significant result, however he's repeated this experiment thousands of times with significant results.

[LocustCloacina]

Bilboer,

I do agree they should have a set number of tries they plan to test, but perhaps they did pick 1000 beforehand. I do agree that it is easier to guess who is calling than it is to guess some other things, considering a limited number of people tend to call us each day, some at certain times. However, in this controlled setting, it was just as likely to be one of these people calling as any of the other ones- they could not rely on time of day as an indicator for example.

[seyoumeye]

The secret is to speak to them but in your mind before making the phone call - I assure you this is one of the effective and powerful psychic technique - speak to your target in or with your mind oinly then observe the outcome.

[chillshack]

very interesting, thanks for sharing. i agree, 50% correct compels further investigation. skeptical comments seem to ignore statistical significance...now why is that? i thought skeptics loved stats as a primo debunker tool? hmm...only when it suits huh?

[harvey261]

Its alittle depressing how dumb some people are. this hasnt been "debunked" And it doesnt need "controls" when you know the expected occurrence in the general population. try to not be retarded if you can

[giu2085]

well i guess having faith that this actually is possible and that our minds have a chance to accomplish this doesn't do any harm....i mean other than being human monkeys working for jobs that we hate so we can buy shit that we don't need

[lilliansmart]

This has already been debunked by two scientists in France. It has to do with mathematical probability not with magic as this "scientist" claims. He's a disgrace to the scientific method.

[ReX342]

Did they check if certain people call more often?

[giraffepoo]

Interesting.

[MAGICnewyork]

Okay, here's the scoop. The FINAL 2 SENTENCES SPOKEN are: "Colleen's final score is 50%. One of the highest of over 1000 tests done by Dr. Sheldrake." So, this again is based on "chance" and nothing more! Do 1000 tests of a 1 in 4 experiment, and 1 test out of 1000  will (by chance odds alone) be 50% accurate, while another will (by chance odds alone) be 0% accurate! those are the ODDS folks, nothing paranormal about it!

[W77W]

Sheldrake states in:

Rupert Sheldrake - The Extended Mind - Telepathy. Pt 2/3

That the average score in these tests is 42%.

And he states further that this is:

way, way above chance.

[chavdar84]

bs! If the average score of 1000 trails is 42% it's almost impossible to be just by chance.

Nice try!

[bobdole020]

And over all of them, it should be 25% but it's not, it's 40%, that was the point of the whole video.

[MargitHjukse]

In this show that runs in norway about finding the person in norway that is most clairvoyance, they had a test with telepathy. One lady  was standing a diffrent building then the clairvoyance people. She had 4 diffrents coulur pens and 8 diffret objekt that she could draw. She draw 5 difrrent objekts and she could choose wich colour she could use. And one of the clairvoyance guy did draw the 5 objekts exactly the same way as the ladie did draw, even the colour! whats the odds of that?

[ranbonzy]

It seems in Norwegian (sometimes) 'k' is used instead 'c' when compared to English.

I thought that is the case in German.

[MargitHjukse]

I dont see where i did use "k" insdead of "c" thoguh, but well, that could happend, we almost never uses the letter c when I think about it.

[ranbonzy]

Obje'k't  :)

[thenolansrocktonight]

i like this but its fantastic and amazing

[emborios]

Science in the age of Big Brother.

[gotilk]

Seriously. How do you get a "control" for this? Tell people to REFRAIN from using their "psychic powers"??!! Or maybe tell them...

"don't guess..."

and then 2 seconds later say

"ok, I was lying.. guess now"

The average percentage is not a real statistic. It simply cannot be. Want, pray, hope.. for this kind of thing all you want, but don't expect those with half a brain to not see through it when you run a scam.

[gotilk]

Interesting. So the average would be 25%? Based on what data? Controls? Or is this some nebulous "expected percentage" pulled out of some statistician's bum? How do you tell people to "not guess" who is calling and still get a result??? Seriously, think about the for a moment, folks. Really consider that. It's an experiment set up to succeed as the ONLY possible result. We call that a "scam" for those unfamiliar with the game.

[telephonemoose]

Well sir, you have proven you know very little of 3rd grade mathematics.

Susie has 4 fruits, an apple, an orange, a banana, and a pear. If she picks one up, what are the chances it will be a pear?

[bigfootpegrande]

Depends on her preferences...

[foreverago02]

One strange day,I thought of calling my cousin when the phone rang. It was my cousin. He answered telling me how strange he was just about to call me. I said no YOU DID call me. he said no his phone rang, I called him! Basically, both of us thought about calling eachother at the same time, both of our phones rang the next second, both of us answered thinking the other called when no one called no one! The phone rang by itself, I believe our minds together made it happen! Two minds stronger tha 1

[redyns23]

Quite extraordinary, I find Mr Sheldrake one of the leading few who are fixing the lack of sight through Descartes and Neutonian science. By combining the soul and the love of God and an appreciation of all living things. Through science and spirit we human can achieve greatness with grace!

[dodgedart74]

you cant use celebritys because they are on tv for the reason theyre thick headed, because at times millions of people are thinking about one person, and if that one person cant get a grip and harness that then he's superstar,

[LibraryLies]

i have not only had telephone esp but,radio, and internet and movie esp.

and esp have been becoming stronger the last 1 week. it maybe with all this EM pollution it is pssiable for the human body to preceive certain waves of info, i also pratice taichi and qigong.

email my youtube link name if any one has had the same experince.

[andan04]

I knew you were going to post that.

[xleax]

lol

[thestrugglewithin]

This is retarded. 25% chance? thats GOOOOD odds.

Of all the people that get phone telepathy -do they only know FOUR people? NO.

The fact that they start off stating that "almost everyone" has exp phone-telepathy shows the reason WHY they chose to use a 25% probablity. Conflict of interest and an extreme lack of sicentific method.

[Medeasbiggestfan]

If repeated enough times, it would yield a statistically significant result. He says he's done 1000 trials and the hit rate was 42%, which seems significant.

[jophus82]

25% is the banana score (a monkey could do it)

There are 4 possible options, you have to guess 1. 1 out of 4 is 25%

Sorry I see you left this comment months ago. I just had to explain in case someone else saw this and was wondering why they chose 25%. They didn't choose it. That is the probability, like your chances of rolling a 4 on dice is 1/6

This was presented in an entertainment show. I'd be curious to see the actual details of the study though to see how they conducted the actual study

[gotilk]

You cannot know what the "normal" score is because in all cases you are asking about a GUESS. You see what I mean? I'm confused about only one thing here, right now. How no-one else here is noticing that it's impossible to make a non-guess guess. So no baseline can be established.

[jophus82]

I was just saying if you have to pick 1 answer out of 4 possible, and you do this 100 times, without any knowledge of the subject you are likely to get at least 25 percent. It is an entire science called statistics. It DOES NOT MATTER THE SUBJECT.

I believe is certain things that we can't explain. Meditation and the secret for example. I believe we can be networked in a way we don't understand.

I'm just saying the banana score is real.

[chavdar84]

It's average, not absolute 25%! Some can guess 100% and some 0%, but in average is somewhere near 25% and when this average score is much higher than 25% people are considering that something is influencing the results. In this case the idea is clairvoyance.

To be more clear, this so called "baseline" that you're seeking does not exist. Nothing is that absolute, even the word "basic" and "chance".

[Morgena1]

It's about mirror neurones or call it tacit knowledge, something which many scientists are still denying cos it scares them, even through if they would have experiences of such like.

[mybabe04]

Notice how the no-brainer Nolans are more interested in how they look, or more so...how they have aged...LoL

[TruthLooker1]

Notice how it didn't work for the skeptic one. Thats because sketpics put out negative energy and when you put out negative energy you get negative results

[chavdar84]

Of course, a skeptic would just say a name without asking his subconscious mind who can be calling him.

[itsabomberscope]

I know one thing for a certain fact. People always phone me when im in the toilet! lol

[shameoncanada]

LOL What a bloody idiot. morphic resonance my butt. Grow up people.

[adorant]

I thinkthe fact that they sing together helps to establish the .morphic resonance' that Sheldrake believes helps increase the effect and also allows birds toflock to gether etc.

[DXMDEALER]

Any1 here who have used LSD knows that ESP is real.

[Nimzomyth68]

You're right although its hard to believe. Shrooms for me.

[BIOLOGICALSCUM]

how long the effects of shrooms last?

[Nimzomyth68]

Do you mean how long does a mushroom trip last? Anything from 4 to 8 hours depending on the type of mushrooms. It varies.

[googlehdp]

en español por favor

[elgaed42]

Perhaps someone can make subtitles in Spanish and other languages, although English is the most important language in the world now (and High-German is the most valuable).

[leitrimboy]

It's interesting that the sister she couldn't get most of the time was Anne - the sceptical one.

[dmhewey]

ESP research has demonstrated that one's belief in success or failure has an effect on one's accuracy.

[susiesorgenfrei]

Excellent! And good fun too!

Thanx for that one!

[cldnn]

those are some pretty bad results for a phenomena that supposedly "exists" these trials are always done with ridiculously small possibilities to GUESS from. why is it always 3-5 of your friends. In a real experiment looking for the truth you should go up to say....20 friends and see how long you run a 40% rate. if information is being transmitted telepathically....it should work just as well with 20 friends. If Sheldrake is just trying to anomaly hunt with small numbers...it won;t work so well

[GayRightsAdvocate]

If the subjects were "guessing" by chance alone, then the success rate would be 25%. But out of 1,000+ trials, the average is 42%, which is very statistically significant and cannot be attibuted to any statistical artifact(s). He also has good work on animal telepathy, including work that Wiseman himself replicated (very close pertencage that looks like Sheldrake's data when put on graph, something that wiseman never tells people...)

[romanianskill]

i just flipped a coin ten times in a row and in came up head only twice. maybe if i flipped it another million times the numbers would balance out, but as each flip is an independant event probability has no real baring on the results. so if it continued to land on head only 20% of the time then that wouldn't be paranormal or wierd...

[MetaphysicsAddict]

"so if it continued to land on head only 20% of the time then that wouldn't be paranormal or wierd..."

did anybody suggest otherwise??

The average success rate in shedrake's published work is over 40% (with a subset doing much better), not 20%. With chance at 25%, the average of 40% means that chance is not a good explanation.

But I agree with those who argue that Sheldrake needs to do larger trials with more people.

[romanianskill]

fuck off

[MetaphysicsAddict]

"fuck off"?

come on dude... why so much hostility? We can have a real (and peaceful) conversation and share ideas with each other... or you can be insulting. Your call.

[Ninjujitsu]

This is exactly what I thought of when I watched the video. Just because the probability is 50/50 doesn't mean you're going to flip heads, tails, heads, tails. It just means the coin has an equal likelihood to be heads or tails. How many times heads or tails comes up is completely random. In fact, I'm not sure what this video's trying to prove.

[asd4478]

Ninju:

I am afraid not. You have to do the maths. If you throw a coin 10 times, you have an extremely small chance of getting 10 tails (1/2^10=1/1024=0.01%) because there is only one way to get it: TTTTTTTTTT. The chance to get 5 tails is much larger because the order does not count (HHHHHTTTTT or TTTTTHHHHH or HTHTHTHTHT or HHHHTTTTTH etc)

If at the end the day, they get 40% intead of 25%, it might be telling you something - or not. It depends on how many times they did the experiment.

[Medeasbiggestfan]

The die had six sides but there were only four sisters. How were the extra numbers on the die used?

[mrhogg]

That was my question, too. If they were looping around -- a roll of five means the first sister calls, and a roll of six means the second sister does -- then numbers 1 and 2 would come up 1/3 more, which would make the random chance higher.

[chavdar84]

Maybe they are skipping it and throw the die again.

[gorgegenius]

i love the nolans !

[gmdinformation]

His book: "Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home" was a great piece of evidence that there is much more to animals (why not the human animal too?) than meets the eye. Good stuff.

[Virgo34]

Dogs can sense when a tsunami is coming.Think what humans should have the capacity to know about the unseen then.

[powerhse74]

That was to darn Cute