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Twitter to test psychic powers in scientific study

dailymail.co.uk — Thousands of people will this week test their psychic powers on Twitter. Experts will investigate 'remote viewing' - the psychic ability to identify distant locations using volunteers.

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  • lornefs, on 06/01/2009, -1/+44I predict that the results will be the same as the results of pure guesswork.
  • novenator, on 06/01/2009, -2/+35I predict this will be hilarious
  • nahsrocketeer75, on 06/01/2009, -2/+31I predict the appearance of a cartoonish whale.
  • dirtmonkey, on 06/02/2009, -1/+26I predict Twitter sucks.
  • angusm, on 06/02/2009, -1/+25If we had telepathy, we wouldn't need Twitter.
  • diggstown, on 06/02/2009, -3/+21I predict that Twitter will be soon considered a fad.

    Seriously, enough with the Twitter Hype Machine!
  • tallguyg, on 06/02/2009, -0/+17I predict that even after this study conclusively proves that psychic powers are complete bunk people will find excuses to continue believing in it anyway.
  • inactive, on 06/02/2009, -1/+12Twitter + Daily Mail. Whats the opposite of synergy anyways?
    The sum of 2 fails is worse than its parts.
  • inactive, on 06/02/2009, -2/+12Gonna drop a prediction here sad lonely 140 character failure. Followed by many 140 character lies.
  • mksmothers, on 06/02/2009, -0/+10I predict that one out of 52 people who are psychic will be able to pick the right card out of deck.
  • FredFredrickson, on 06/02/2009, -3/+12Oh good, two things I hate: Twitter and laughably bogus science.
  • inactive, on 06/02/2009, -2/+10i predict someone will get guess right. I predict people will then interpret this as psychic powers, because that's what they wanted to believe in in the first place
  • diggduggDOOM, on 06/02/2009, -0/+7I forgot to pay my telepathy bill once. I had such a headache from the backlog of messages when I finally got my service restarted.
  • ajsmth, on 06/02/2009, -0/+5But can it play Crysis?
  • Leviathan433, on 06/02/2009, -0/+5Somehow, I think you knew you were going to be dugg down...
  • m3arvk, on 06/02/2009, -0/+4I saw this coming.
  • mrkredo, on 06/02/2009, -3/+7***** Twitter
  • diggduggDOOM, on 06/02/2009, -1/+4We don't need Twitter.
  • 2Bnor2B, on 06/02/2009, -0/+3OMG, I was just about to say that!
    Did you read my mind or did I read yours?
  • inactive, on 06/02/2009, -1/+4Excellent point. When nature doesn't endow us with something we want, we use our intelligence to make a machine that gives it to us. Which is really just nature providing it to us in a roundabout way, when you think about it.

    There's no practical difference between having telepathy and talking on a hands free phone.
  • dirtmonkey, on 06/02/2009, -1/+442
  • inactive, on 06/02/2009, -1/+4rand();
  • mrpunman, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2Megan Fox?
  • tehnico, on 06/02/2009, -0/+2Pfft, already done... http://www.twitter.com/edglosser
  • AndrewDB, on 06/02/2009, -1/+3I predict the appearance of a sailboat.
  • LaughingMan89, on 06/02/2009, -1/+3Though also fairly likely to be misinterpreted due to bad experimental design, experimenter bias, and wishful thinking.
  • trentrezn0r, on 06/02/2009, -1/+3I like the premise of using the knowledge of crowds, but the crowd is only on the receiving end of the ‘message’ in this experiment. If the ’sender’ of the ‘message’ does not have the ability to send or is doing it wrong, the whole amassed crowd of receivers is wasted.

    I would like to see a crowd of people sending with a different crowd receiving. I would be anxious to see if that changed any of the results of the experiment.
  • molochi, on 06/02/2009, -0/+2It's a schooner.
  • PatrickBrown, on 06/02/2009, -0/+2They are predictably psychotic.
  • EarlOfLade, on 06/02/2009, -0/+2Correct!
    Psychotic people are unpredictable!
  • Parastie, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1Saddly, I the one true psychic, will not in London at that time...you'd think I would have known before hand....
  • evergrim, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1I think it has been over-hyped and I hope it will go the ***** away, or at least that people stop talking about it all the time, kind of like the way myspace is now.
  • mister711, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1This is the best use for twitter yet! /sarcasm
  • anonymousmedic, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1I predict that this will become the definition of an epic fail.

    Pseudoscience for the Win!
  • phasm42, on 06/02/2009, -3/+4So.. the odds of guessing correctly are 1 in 125, and they hope for 10,000 people to participate. So odds are, a few dozen people are going to be saying OMG I'M PSYCHIC!
  • EarlOfLade, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1I didn't know it was, but I guess you tend to find what you are looking for!
  • ProfessorRiffs, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1I predict massive failure.
  • EarlOfLade, on 06/02/2009, -0/+13476985345638456032652356723486

    Easy!
  • darkciti2, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1Forensic medium/remote viewer: "You'll find the body near something blue. I also see brown, somewhere. Wait... Now, I see green in the picture. Yes. Definitely. There will also be water nearby. Oh and I also hear birds chirping."

    [95% of places where bodies are buried]
  • EarlOfLade, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1Mostly because pimping this belief will put steak on the table and money in the bank for quite a few scammers.
  • Jakoul, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1I'm pretty sure if anyone had psychic powers they wouldn't use Twitter. Due to them already knowing what others are doing or frankly not giving a crap like most people.
  • dragossh, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1I'm a psychic, I saw the flood of "Twitter sucks" comments before the page opened.
  • dead56k, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1#diggtrendhatingtwitter
  • drhamr, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1brilliant!
  • RiperSnifle, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1I predict the results for this will be about the same as the results for all other psychic ability testing. And it won't change a thing because a few people will guess right, which means these numbskulls will still believe in psychics. Stop doing STUDIES and DISPROVE it already! It's already been done many times, just not recently.
  • buckrogers1965, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1I knew you were going to say that.
  • evergrim, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1This is just to give the old folks (the Oprah brigade) something to actually do on the internet.
  • HeyArnold, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1Cue Neil Patrick Harris!
  • monoloco, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1Dugg for the commenters on the article itself -- we have one person who's convinced the psychic powers are satanic, and another who thinks she's a psychic. Sounds like a pretty accurate sample of the Daily Mail readership, if I've ever seen one.
  • yaosio, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1This is not scientific, deal with it.
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