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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. |