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Telephone telepathy: I was just thinking about you
(Beijing Time)
Updated: 2006-09-07 10:44



Many people have experienced the phenomenon of receiving a telephone call
from someone shortly after thinking about them -- now a scientist says he
has proof of what he calls telephone telepathy.

Rupert Sheldrake, whose research is funded by the respected Trinity
College, Cambridge, said on Tuesday he had conducted experiments that
proved that such precognition existed for telephone calls and even
e-mails.

Each person in the trials was asked to give researchers names and phone
numbers of four relatives or friends. These were then called at random
and told to ring the subject who had to identify the caller before
answering the phone.

"The hit rate was 45 percent, well above the 25 percent you would have
expected," he told the annual meeting of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science. "The odds against this being a chance effect are
1,000 billion to one."

He said he found the same result with people being asked to name one of
four people sending them an e-mail before it had landed.

However, his sample was small on both trials -- just 63 people for the
controlled telephone experiment and 50 for the email -- and only four
subjects were actually filmed in the phone study and five in the email,
prompting some scepticism.

Undeterred, Sheldrake -- who believes in the interconnectedness of all
minds within a social grouping -- said that he was extending his
experiments to see if the phenomenon also worked for mobile phone text
messages.



















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