Meta - analysis of mind - matter interaction experiments : 1959 to 2000
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Laboratory experiments examining the possibility of direct mind-matter interactions have been reported for over a century. Two classes of such experiments reported most frequently include tossing dice while maintaining the intention for certain die faces to appear, and mental influence of truly random bits generated by electronic random number generators (RNG). Earlier metaanalyses of publications reporting dice and RNG experiments published up to 1987 provided strong statistical evidence for mind-matter interaction phenomena. We conducted an update of the RNG experiment literature to see if the evidence persists.
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