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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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 Posted - 01/25/2010 : 12:43:44
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I recently received an email about an interesting study. The Web site's intro reads, in part:Experiment on individual differences and pattern detection
We are looking for people who believe OR disbelieve in paranormal phenomena (see definitions) to participate in this study, which seeks to explore individual differences behind the tendencies to see patterns and pictures in visual noise and hear sounds and words amid auditory noise (there may or may not be a pattern present and where there is a pattern, this may be a weak stimulus or an ESP stimulus).
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Insights gained from this study will extend our current understanding about the way in which people are able to perceive weak signals (including ESP and weak signals) within both visual and auditory noise and the processes involved in creativity. Sounds interesting, at least. I wish I were closer to the study centers.
Isn't Durham, NC, sort of in your neck of the woods, filthy?
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ThorGoLucky
Snuggle Wolf
USA
1486 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2010 : 18:56:07 [Permalink]
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Interesting, though my hunch is that perceptions won't be different but interperetations will be. Like, I sometimes see weird stuff when I first wake up in the morning: total strangers standing in my bedroom, giant spiders crawling on my walls, squirrels leaping around, and other oddities; yet I simply interperet these events as my brain was still partially asleep. When I tell this to woo people, they immediately leap to the conclusion that there are spirits and/or I have a special "gift". Oy vey! 
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2010 : 20:39:50 [Permalink]
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Thor.....
| I sometimes see weird stuff when I first wake up in the morning: total strangers standing in my bedroom, giant spiders crawling on my walls, squirrels leaping around, and other oddities |
Thor, what do you usually have as a nightcap? |
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ThorGoLucky
Snuggle Wolf
USA
1486 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2010 : 22:23:18 [Permalink]
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| Haha, bngbuck, it's just hynagogia, a well-known phenomena. I've gotten used to the giant spiders and watch them with interest as they silently sputter out of existence, but I still literally scream when I find those strangers standing there. Gaaaah! |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 08:05:46 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
I recently received an email about an interesting study. The Web site's intro reads, in part:Experiment on individual differences and pattern detection
We are looking for people who believe OR disbelieve in paranormal phenomena (see definitions) to participate in this study, which seeks to explore individual differences behind the tendencies to see patterns and pictures in visual noise and hear sounds and words amid auditory noise (there may or may not be a pattern present and where there is a pattern, this may be a weak stimulus or an ESP stimulus).
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Insights gained from this study will extend our current understanding about the way in which people are able to perceive weak signals (including ESP and weak signals) within both visual and auditory noise and the processes involved in creativity. Sounds interesting, at least. I wish I were closer to the study centers.
Isn't Durham, NC, sort of in your neck of the woods, filthy?
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It's some thirty miles south of me, and a town I dearly loath. Unfortunately, the VA hospital is located there, so I can't entirely avoid it.
I'm not sure this is something I want to get involved in, as it looks like educated woo to me. Besides these things have been done in one form or another since the '50s and probably earlier.
I'll give it some thought, though; might be interesting.
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tomk80
SFN Regular
Netherlands
1278 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2010 : 17:19:15 [Permalink]
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I find the references to ESP puzzling. They really do mean extrasensory perception.
I have participated in similar studies on pattern recognition before, though. It is genuinely interesting stuff, although the experiments aren't always that interesting to participate in. |
Tom
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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Interesting study needing participants
