Rupert Sheldrake by The Sense Of Being Stared At

Author:The Sense Of Being Stared At
Language: eng
Format: epub

The Amsterdam experiment

The largest experiment ever conducted on the sense of being stared at has been going on in Amsterdam since 1995. More than 18,700 looker-subject pairs have taken part, and the statistical significance of the positive results is astronomical: the odds against chance are 10376 to one. Such a figure defies all imagination.

Based on my suggestions, Diana Issidorides and her colleagues at the New Metropolis Centre, a science museum in Amsterdam, developed an ingenious computerized procedure that made the experiment seem like a game, with moving graphics and instructions. They employed a sophisticated but user-friendly statistical methodology 23 that gave immediate feedback on how the subject was doing.

In the Amsterdam experiment, the looker sits behind the subject and is instructed whether to look or not by a signal on the computer screen. For each trial, the subject guesses out loud and the looker enters the guess into the computer. Depending on the number of correct or incorrect guesses, after a maximum of 30 trials, the computer announces whether the subject 'has eyes in the back of the head' or not.

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