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Geomagnetic Activity and Anomalous Cognition: A Preliminary Report of New Evidence. S.J.P. Spottiswoode
Analyses of anecdotal reports of putative telepathic experiences have shown that these tend to be reported on days of relatively low geomagnetic activity. Studies of laboratory psi experiments have yielded weak confirmation of this effect. The existence of a negative correlation between scores in free response anomalous cognition experiments and geomagnetic fluctuations was confirmed in four data sets (combined p = 3 x 10-6) which showed significant anomalous cognition. The negative correlation was absent from two other data sets showing no evidence of anomalous cognition. Additionally, analysis of an unusually large database of anomalous cognition trials (n =336), covering a range of approximately ± 130 hours between perception and target observation, suggests that the negative correlation between scores and geomagnetic fluctuations occurs only for trials in which this interval is less than ± 2 hours, and is absent for precognitive or retrocognitive perception outside this time range. These results may facilitate the elucidation of the physical mechanism of anomalous cognition.
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