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Originally Posted by filtherton
My intuition convincing me to walk 5 blocks out of my way on a cold slushy day with a broken foot, which resulted in me getting a ride when a friend happened to drive by: did I just know, like, supernaturally, that he was going to drive by, or was my subconscious mind simply playing the odds in suggesting that I walk along a busier street where the odds of a person I knew driving by were greater?
The answer to that question depends more on your disposition towards such things than it does on your commitment to the scientific method.
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Indeed, which annoys me to no end. So far the best test I've found for such things are the 'micro-pk' experiments, or what I like to refer to as 'strength of observation' experiments. Basically coercing a random number generator (RNG) to spew out a statistically relevant deviation from the average value. So far, the experiments they've run have shown promise. Here's some links.
RetroPsychoKinesis Experiments Online
Paranormaal onderzoek: Online psychokinese experiment, paranormale links
I like the clock one the best. I've gotten some decent results myself. Though only one spectacular result ("1 out of 47" likely-hood of it occurring) out of a dozen tries or so. I plan on sitting down and trying to practice sometime soon and see if I can get an improvement. I would be very interested to hear how other tfp members do on these tests.
Of course I question the validity of these website experiments. But I have seen a peer reviewed study of this as well. So the concept is sound, just not sure about these particular websites.