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Twitter’s ability to bring the world instant information will be put to a new use in the coming weeks, by testing people’s psychic abilities.
People in the UK will be asked to tweet their impressions of a randomly chosen spot by a Twitter researcher. They will then be able to vote on which of five photographs on a website shows said spot. The test will be conducted four times across different locations, and if three of the five are successfully identified, they believe that the study will give credibility to the psychic ability of remote viewing.
The head of the study, Professor Richard Wiseman from the University of Hertfordshire states, “Personally, I'm sceptical, but three hits would be against odds of one in 125, which would be quite impressive.”
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