>From Wikipedia's article on double blind experiments<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_experiment#Double-blind_trials> :
"In a double-blind experiment, neither the participants nor the researchers know which participants belong to the control group, as opposed to the test group. Only after all data have been recorded (and in some cases, analyzed) do the researchers learn which participants were which." This effect is almost an inevitable consequence of doing on-line testing aka "AB testing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing>": The subject hits the experiment's URL. The server selects which treatment is given to the subject (in this case, which image is presented to him). Measurement of the results of the treatment are recorded by submitting a response form (in this case, a simple "(Y) yeah I felt something I do not attribute to my own psychology or (N) nah, i don't think I really felt anything that was caused by anything but my psychology" The case is recorded as a database row. Later the researcher, who had no hand in selecting which images were presented to which subjects nor even communicating with the subjects anything but the conditions of the experiment, can analyze the data. Better yet, outsiders can inspect the data and supply their own interpretations. On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:06 PM, John Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, so have 2 images, one active and one inactive. > > See if people can establish which is which? > > Good idea, I will mock one up. > > > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:01 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I believe I mentioned this before when you requested experimental >> subjects: >> >> Its trivial to run double blind controls over the internet. Why don't >> you? >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:15 AM, John Berry <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi, some of you may remember that I designed images that I claim effect >>> the background energy of space (aether, dark matter/energy, higgs field, >>> quantum foam) to the point of being felt by most people. >>> >>> Some people have felt the energy and inquired about why they can feel >>> something hitting them (in public places with it out of sight and no >>> introduction). Hence it is not just in the mind. >>> >>> How can it possibly work? Because light is a terrahertz electric and >>> magnetic field, all EM effects the medium that it is manifested in making >>> it a little bit more solid, that which is involved in light is not as free >>> to move as that which is darker. >>> Actually in quantum terms, the light could be said to be collapsing the >>> quantum wave function where it passes, but allowing a greater degree of >>> wave function elsewhere. >>> >>> Last time some people on the list felt it, some didn't and not enough >>> were willing to answer to be terribly clear which group was in the >>> majority, but probably feelers by a slim majority. >>> >>> Anyway I have improved the 'tech' enough that I would be very grateful >>> if any who didn't feel anything, or were unsure last time would give it >>> another shot. >>> And if you haven't tried before, please try it. >>> >>> http://imageshack.com/a/img577/8635/7w1a.png (feel over the image and >>> the line to the top right shoots energy out the side of your monitor) >>> >>> The sensation can differ from normal sensation, sometimes I will >>> encounter this energy without expecting to, but it seems to require intent >>> other times, it seems to depend on how this type of energy (chi?) is going >>> in your body. You may feel warmth, cool, motion, tingle or buzz or some >>> indescribable difference. >>> >>> It can be very obvious or very subtle, and change for the person in >>> either direction. >>> Feel free to answer in private if you prefer. >>> Please answer either way. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> John >>> >> >> >
