Phone telepathy: You knew it was true

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NORWICH, England (Reuters) -- Many people have experienced the phenomenon of receiving a telephone call from someone shortly after thinking about them -- now a scientist says he has proof of what he calls telephone telepathy.

Rupert Sheldrake, whose research is funded by the respected Trinity College, Cambridge, said on Tuesday he had conducted experiments that proved that such precognition existed for telephone calls and even e-mails.

Each person in the trials was asked to give researchers names and phone numbers of four relatives or friends. These were then called at random and told to ring the subject who had to identify the caller before answering the phone.

"The hit rate was 45 percent, well above the 25 percent you would have expected," he told the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

"The odds against this being a chance effect are 1,000 billion to one."

He said he found the same result with people being asked to name one of four people sending them an e-mail before it had landed.

However, his sample was small on both trials -- just 63 people for the controlled telephone experiment and 50 for the email -- and only four subjects were actually filmed in the phone study and five in the email, prompting some skepticism.

Undeterred, Sheldrake -- who believes in the interconnectedness of all minds within a social grouping -- said that he was extending his experiments to see if the phenomenon also worked for mobile phone text messages.

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I think it's a crock of shite myself. Anyone can make a good guess and that's all this is.

You'd think if he was seriously trying to prove a point he'd atleast have filmed all the results to have something to back up his claim.

Do any of you believe this and think you've telepathic powers? :not listening:

[maycm]

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[fritz]

Do I think I have telepathic powers? "NO" Do I think anyone else has telepathic powers. "NO" Do I think it's a crock of shite."YES" and that's my story and I'm sticking with it

[eefanincan]

I don't know about telepathic powers but I do think some people are just more "in tune" with those types of things. I often get a sense or will dream that something in particular will happen shortly before it does. But it's nothing that I'd rely on. I think a lot of it has to do with my line of work and having to assess things really closely and anticipate things happening. But it's not like I use a Ouji board or anything

[Skylace]

If I had telepathic powers staff meetings would be so much more relaxing because I'd be able to know exactly what the big "muck-a-mucks" were dancing around.