| R. D. Nelson,
G. J. Bradish, Y. D. Dobyns, B. J. Dunne, R. G. Jahn Princeton
Engineering Anomalies Research, School of Engineering/Applied Science, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ 08544
Journal of Scientific Exploration, 1996,
Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 111.
Also available as Technical Note PEAR 95003
Portable random event generators with software to index
and record continuous sequences of data in field situations are found to produce anomalous
outputs when deployed in various group environments. These "FieldREG" systems
have been operated under formal protocols in ten separate venues, all of which subdivide
naturally into temporal units, such as sessions, presentations, or days. The most extreme
data segments from each of the ten applications, after appropriate correction for multiple
sampling, compound to a collective probability against chance expectation of 2x10 -4.
Interpretation remains speculative at this point, but logbook notes and anecdotal reports
from participants suggest that high degrees of attention, intellectual cohesiveness,
shared emotion, or other coherent qualities of the groups tend to correlate with
statistically unusual deviations from theoretical expectation in the FieldREG sequences.
If sustained over more extensive experiments, such effects could add credence to the
concept of a consciousness "field" as an agency for creating order in random
physical processes.
The overall
cumulative divergence of these examples from expectation is shown in a figure that also
includes calibration data for comparison [below].
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