Who will explain Princeton's global consciousness project to me?

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It seems to involve eggs. And September 11th

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am so glad I did not attend an Ivy League university.

― Nicole, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm partciulalrly amused by the graph of "Odds against Chance".

― Graham, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It also seems to involve a sample of 40 self-selecting people representing a universe of over six billion. The market researcher in me thinks a pup is on sale here.

― Tom, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/images/images2/shoupchiodds.gif

A -ha!

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like that even THEY say, well, we don't know what this means but here it is.

― mark s, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I really do want someone to explain this. New answers?

― Mark C, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am DEVASTATED that I didn't go to Princeton! Someone got research money and/or a degree doing this! Anything that starts out with the line, "We do not feel that our minds are isolated within our bodies," must be encouraged to grow and flourish.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Further cynical analysis seems to boil this down to the following:

People react in predictable ways to tragedies. This indicates that people are linked into an over-arching global consciousness which spans the globe and can produce predictable results given a certain type of input.

Frankly, I'd like to get a research grant for renaming HUMAN NATURE to something mystical and spooky...

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, I think what it's saying is that these 'eggs' are computers set to generate random binary responses (like a virtual flipping of a coin), which deviate massively from chance at certain times, cauding 'spikes' in the data. These spikes seem to coincide with major world events like September 11.

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like my answer better. *pout*

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it measures tremors in the Force

― mark s, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That is also true.

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

They have produced a hierarchy of global consciousness stimulants:

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/event_type.html

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 22 March 2003 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

From what I can tell, this project is not funded by Princeton (since they don't list them in their 'donations' page) - it looks like this wacky PEAR group staffer's own personal thing, and I can't even find an online CV for him.

He must have been a Yalie.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 22 March 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Here's an article that was apparently printed in the Daily Mail this week. It predictedf the tsunami!

The Global Consciousness Project did, that is. Not the Daily Mail.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

unless i'm dumb and missing something big:

"we have these random number generators. they randomly produce spikes. every time there is a world event, we look back at our data record, pick out a nearby spike, and call it a prediction. we post a meaningless statistical analysis for appearences. we never actually make predictions before anything happens!! we try pretty hard not to let on that the data for september 11 2000 (or any day!) looks very similar to the data for september 11 2001"

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

i guess the trick is that the researchers can specify whatever time period they want (see the part on recipes). you can calculate chi-square deviations for 1 minute samples, 2 minute samples, 3 minutes samples, etc. the sept 11th result was good for 3 minutes samples. why the arbitrary 3 minute samples?? your guess = good as mine.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 12 February 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

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