Correlations of Random Binary Sequences with Pre-Stated Operator Intention: A Review of a 12-Year Program
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After twelve years and nearly two and a half million trials, Princeton's PEAR lab dropped its definitive report card. Ninety-one volunteers sat before electronic coin-flip generators and simply intended the output to go high or low. The combined result was so far beyond chance that fluke odds were in the trillions-to-one range, though the effect was tiny — roughly one shifted bit per ten thousand. The clever twist: pseudorandom sources (generators following a predetermined hidden sequence) showed zero effect, ruling out equipment glitches. Distance didn't matter either. This remains the largest controlled mind-matter dataset ever assembled.
Research Notes
The largest and most comprehensive mind-matter interaction dataset. Published in Journal of Scientific Exploration. Establishes critical random vs pseudorandom source distinction that constrains theoretical models. Essential for Controversy #8 (GCP/collective consciousness).
Definitive summary of the 12-year Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program studying correlations between random binary process outputs and pre-stated human intentions. 91 anonymous operators generated 2,497,200 trials in 522 tripolar (HI/LO/BL) series using electronic random event generators. Composite data-weighted z-score = 7.180 (p = 3.50 × 10⁻¹³); benchmark REG alone: z = 3.81 (p = 7 × 10⁻⁵). Effect size ~10⁻⁴ bits/bit. Critical finding: deterministic pseudorandom sources yielded null results (z = -0.671), supporting anomalous rather than artifact explanation. Gender differences: 66% males vs 34% females succeeded in HI-LO separation. Remote and off-time experiments showed similar effects to local/on-time.
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Jahn, Robert G, Dunne, Brenda J, Nelson, Roger D (1997). Correlations of Random Binary Sequences with Pre-Stated Operator Intention: A Review of a 12-Year Program. Journal of Scientific Exploration.
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title = {Correlations of Random Binary Sequences with Pre-Stated Operator Intention: A Review of a 12-Year Program},
author = {Jahn, Robert G and Dunne, Brenda J and Nelson, Roger D},
year = {1997},
journal = {Journal of Scientific Exploration},
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