Category: Experiments

Resonance with Randomness The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) lab famously asked whether human intention could bias the outputs of random machines. Their studies collected millions of trials and reported tiny but statistically significant deviations. But follow-up replications by other labs—sometimes using PEAR’s own equipment and protocols—found no such effect. So why revisit a test…

Revisiting Zener Cards In Sealed Envelopes The Zener card test is famous mostly for its flaws. Five symbols, shuffled and guessed, were meant to probe psychic perception. But critics never ran out of ways to explain away results: the cards were bent, the experimenter smirked, the shuffles weren’t perfect, the reporting was selective. Our version…