Step aside conspiracy theorists and make way for the scientific method. Remote viewing enthusiasts, pay close attention. Professor Richard Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, is a specialist in psychic phenomena and for the first time has used Twitter to test remote viewing.
Here are the basics of the experiment: Professor Wiseman went to an undisclosed location in England and would send a message via Twitter for people to tweet their remote views of his location.
After 20 minutes, Professor Wiseman sent another message with a url to a website where the picture of his actual location is plus 4 other decoys. People would then vote on which picture they thought was the correct one.
The results of the experiment are a little shocking depending on where you stand on the issue of remote viewing.
If you want to know the results, check out this article from LearnRemoteViewing.com
Did any of you participate in this? We'd love to hear your thoughts and how you remote viewed the locations.
Twitter Remote Viewing Test Results - Fail 2.0
Remote Viewing Test Results: FAIL
Read all about it, the Twitter Remote Viewing experiment by New Scientist and the University of Hertfordshire has failed - 2.0 style.
If you haven’t heard about this psychic experiment conducted over the popular social website, Twitter, the University of Hertfordshire and New Scientist came together to do research about whether people could actually remote view.
According to the Wall Street Journal:
Prof. Wiseman lodged himself at a secret location on four occasions last week and solicited input from Twitterers around the world to chime in on where they thought he was. After they did that, he tweeted a Web site where participants could choose between five photos representing the correct location and four decoys.
Most got it wrong. “In the first trial I was looking at a striking modern building, but a majority — 35% — of the group thought that I was in some woods,” he said. “The same pattern emerged in all four trials.”
Interestingly, Prof. Wiseman says those who believed in the paranormal (38% of the Twitter participants) were more likely than the skeptics to “convince themselves there was a high level of correspondence between their thoughts and the target.” He says that sort of creative thinking may be what’s necessary for someone to believe in the paranormal.
This is a wonderful idea. I purchased Remote Viewing and Remote Influencing by Gerald O'Donnell this January, and have been studying and studying. I'm ready!
But, where is the contest?
This was a poorly constructed, pseudo-scientific, 'experiment' by a known skeptic who has been shown in the past to skew data results. Have a look at http://irva.org/twitterex.html for a more balanced analysis of the experiement.
The Twitter experiment was entertaining and not science. I 've been remote viewing since 1999 having received personal training from several professional remote viewers and it takes more then this experiment to stand on any solid ground. This was not a scientific experiment it was more of a social psychic experiment. People in general have not trained their minds to receive clear data and filter out the noise. Twitter was a noise based experiment and you would expect to get what he got given the givens of this entertainment he called experiment.
How funny this all is. Check out Ingo Swann on the web and see what is real about remote viewing. He worked as a remote viewer for the CIA. Why do idiots still have to try and disprove all this? What a waste of time and money. Do they really think we're all idiots? Everyone is psychic if they'd only tune in. Examine the motives behind this rubbish. Are they trying to discredit our own, innate psychic ability? Do they want us to remain ignorant until we die?
People once thought the world was flat... ho hum. The world is full of flat-worlders still. Pity they couldn't just fall off and be done with it.
Exactly. Guessing is not remote viewing.