Phone Telepathy
Back before caller ID I remember hearing the phone ring and thinking "Oh it’s gotta be Grandma". Being able to hone in on these telepathic phone skills just isn’t as useful these days but a researcher in England took this skill on in a scientific experiment. I don’t really agree with his methodology and his findings weren’t all that significant because of this but check this out:
Many people have experienced the phenomenon of receiving a telephone call from someone shortly after thinking about them — now a scientist says he has proof of what he calls telephone telepathy.
Rupert Sheldrake, whose research is funded by the respected Trinity College, Cambridge, said on Tuesday he had conducted experiments that proved that such precognition existed for telephone calls and even e-mails.
Each person in the trials was asked to give researchers names and phone numbers of four relatives or friends. These were then called at random and told to ring the subject who had to identify the caller before answering the phone.
"The hit rate was 45 percent, well above the 25 percent you would have expected," he told the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
"The odds against this being a chance effect are 1,000 billion to one."
He said he found the same result with people being asked to name one of four people sending them an e-mail before it had landed.
However, his sample was small on both trials — just 63 people for the controlled telephone experiment and 50 for the email — and only four subjects were actually filmed in the phone study and five in the email, prompting some skepticism.
Undeterred, Sheldrake — who believes in the interconnectedness of all minds within a social grouping — said that he was extending his experiments to see if the phenomenon also worked for mobile phone text messages. Via CNN
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