A Pre-Registered Test of a Correlational Micro-PK Effect: Efforts to Learn from a Failure to Replicate

Micro-psychokinesis (micro-PK) research studies the effects of observers’ conscious or unconscious intentions on random outcomes derived from true sources such as quantum number generators (QRNGs). The micro-PK study presented here was originally planned, preregistered, and conducted to exactly replicate a correlational finding between two within-subject experimental conditions found in an original dataset (n = 12,254) using QRNG. However, after data collection analyses, error detected to-be-replicated dataset. A reanalysis correlation effect correction revealed strong evidence for absence data. This study’s primary goal test existence present specified pre-registration. In addition this replication attempt, also can be considered unsystematic case report field experimenter psi (e-psi), since expectation formed initially about occurrence that indeed objectively absent results indicate no (and standard) effect. other words, actual did not meet experimenters’ expectations, thus consciously based e-psi found. change across time described by sequential Bayes factor resembled pattern frequently reported experimenters past studies. Although these criterion statistical significance, marginal might interpreted weak influences e-psi. addition, trend observed matches both general beliefs micro-PK. These findings’ implications application scientific methods are discussed.
 
 KEYWORDS
 Experimenter effects, micro-psychokinesis (micro-PK), generator (qRNG)