The Mobius Psi-Q Test: Report on a Mass Precogition Experiment with Correlates (PDF)
by Stephan A. Schwartz & Randall J. De Mattei
ABSTRACT
A mass self-reporting experiment involving 15,470 men and women, published in a national circulation American popular science magazine. The experiment consisted of a six section instrument: 1) A precognition task in which participants were asked to predict an outcome couched in the form of a science fantasy story; 2) A psychological evaluation of brain hemisphere dominance measured by the well-established Torrance Style of Learning and Thinking instrument (SOLAT); 3) Job categorization as measured by the Holland Job Scale; 4) a physiological self-reporting Handedness and Writing Posture study; 5) A time perception profile defined by the Time Metaphor Test of Knapp and Garbor; 6) Gender and Age. Each participant received a custom printed four page feedback document providing their unique results. There were three hypotheses: 1) That there would be a significant number of significantly scoring precognitive individuals; 2) That there would be significant sub-populations and that those individuals defined as Dynamic, in accordance with the Time Metaphor Test would score significantly higher than individuals defined as Non-dynamics; and, 3) That the group of individuals identified as Extreme Right, in terms of the SOLAT, would contain a significantly higher number of significantly scoring individuals on the precognitive part of the test than the Extreme Left group. The results showed: Overall non-significance at the p ? .05 level, but a trend towards significance with odds of 16 to 1, z = 1.54; the dynamics did not attain higher scores than the Non-dynamics and, Neutrals scored higher than Dynamics; and, that Extreme Rights did not score significantly higher than Extreme Lefts, although they did score higher.
PUBLICATION & PRESENTATION HISTORY:
This paper was presented to a joint meeting of The Parapsychology Association (USA), and the Society for Psychical Research (UK), Trinity College, Cambridge University on 20 August 1982.
