Research assistants or budding scientists? A review of 96 undergraduate student projects at The Koestler Parapsychology Unit.

This paper reviews 96 undergraduate student projects supervised by Koestler Parapsychology Unit staff. Of these projects, 41.7% were unrelated either to psi or to paranormal experiences and beliefs; 18.8% were related to paranormal experiences and beliefs but contained no psi task. The paper focuses on the remaining 38 projects (39.6%) that included a psi task. Of these projects, 27 predicted overall significant performance on a psi task and 8 (29.6%) found the predicted results. Four small clusters of projects that used similar psi tasks were identified. The PK-RNG and EDA presentiment studies showed little consistency of psi task performance, and the majority (8 out of 9) obtained ...

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