Psychic Lab
1. Introduction: 1a. Psychics who possess clairvoyant powers have the ability to predict more zener cards than do people who lack such powers. 1b. Many experiments about ESP and psychic human beings around the world have been conducted to test the existence of ESP. A lot of these experiments support Dr. Peter Venkman’s hypothesis, but due to the lack in consistency of the results, all evidence to prove such claims tends to be refuted. For example, in the 1970s, SRI remote viewing experiments were conducted to test whether a psychic person is able to see a remote place through the eyes of another person, but because of various procedural imperfections, a conclusion that such power exists could not be solidified and
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3a. A lot of data is needed to do a statistical test, like the number of correct predictions of each participant in each group and calculate the percentage of accuracy. The difference between groups and the variation within groups are important aspects of a statistical test. The “difference between groups” would be calculated by finding the average of correct answers from the psychic group and the average of correct answers from the nonpsychic group, and then they would be subtracted. So, in each group, I will add up all the correct answers and divide by 60, which is the number of participants in each group, then I will subtract both calculations. 3b. The formula of standard deviation will be used to calculate the variation within the two groups. Xi is each participant’s number of correct answers and x is the average of the correct answers of the group of that participant. n is the sample size of the group, which is 60. is the sign of summation, or the addition of all the calculations of (xi-x) squared. 3c. Results are called statistically significant if they are unlikely to have occurred by chance. In order for the results of this experiment to be statistically significant, the difference between both averages of the groups must be about 2 times or accurately 1.96 times the standard deviation of the
3a. A lot of data is needed to do a statistical test, like the number of correct predictions of each participant in each group and calculate the percentage of accuracy. The difference between groups and the variation within groups are important aspects of a statistical test. The “difference between groups” would be calculated by finding the average of correct answers from the psychic group and the average of correct answers from the nonpsychic group, and then they would be subtracted. So, in each group, I will add up all the correct answers and divide by 60, which is the number of participants in each group, then I will subtract both calculations. 3b. The formula of standard deviation will be used to calculate the variation within the two groups. Xi is each participant’s number of correct answers and x is the average of the correct answers of the group of that participant. n is the sample size of the group, which is 60. is the sign of summation, or the addition of all the calculations of (xi-x) squared. 3c. Results are called statistically significant if they are unlikely to have occurred by chance. In order for the results of this experiment to be statistically significant, the difference between both averages of the groups must be about 2 times or accurately 1.96 times the standard deviation of the