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Psi, Business and the Stock Market

Physicist Harold Puthoff, who had worked with Targ and Harary at SRI, also tried his hand in predicting stock market fluctuations. His approach, however, was different; rather than working with a gifted person, he collaborated with a group of parents who hoped to generate funds for an alternative school for their children. The objective was to manage a stock portfolio based on the subjects' predictions. Seven parents volunteered as subjects. Puthoff used an Associative Remote Viewing technique to obtain each person's prediction as to the stock's next movement, and the different predictions were combined into a "majority vote" to obtain a single prediction. An experimenter who had no contact with the subjects used a randomization procedure to link two objects to the rise or the fall of stock values. Meanwhile, each of the subjects independently gave their impressions of the unknown target-object. A blind judge went through all the transcripts, and decided which object most resembled the majority of given descriptions. This determined a prediction as to whether the stock's value would rise or fall, and instructions would then be passed on to a stock broker, who acted accordingly. The next day, when the real movement of the stock was made known, the appropriate object was shown to the subjects as the "correct" outcome. In 30 trials involving stock transactions, they amassed $25,000 for the school. The document here shows an example, with the two target objects, and the independent drawings of the two subjects for that day; each one had clearly received the impression of the same target: a roll of scotch tape.

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