How could we test psychic powers?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

How could we test psychic powers? This is a very interesting thing because if we are thinking about telepathy, telekinesis and another kind of things, we must realize, that those skills would be in some persons personal control, and that makes them hard to test. When we are thinking about the situation, that some scientists would like to test those skills or mental powers, the reason, why people could avoid that kind of tests, is that the participation in  this kind of tests would be mean, that those persons would tell that they are believing that they have some kind of telekinetic powers.

And they are afraid that this kind of testing would stamp them as abnormal persons, or some kind of "folio hat users". This attitude is very common, and the investigation of this kind of things is very often stamped as a hoax, and do you know, what is a funny thing? There was no test even made, before that kind of judgment came. The truth was that those tests had millions of dollars in funding, and they were conducted by military intelligence. The only needed thing was some playing cards or paper cards, there were some pictures.

An idea was to test could test person see the same things, what the tester sees. There is claiming that somebody hides something during those tests. And the thing is, that the test situation allowed those people to know, that behind those tests were DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency). That means that the test person could see, that behind some of those test were the Department of Defense. Those tests were not motivated enough to use that skill, what was under the investigation.

The thing what they should use in that kind of tests is the thing like gambling tables. The thing, what those scientists used was the probability. The persons who have those skills might have the ability to change the probability in the roulette or card table. The gambling table would be a very motivated thing, and if the profit would be high enough, would the motivation to use those skills like telepathy and telekinesis rise very high level.

And if the person can read the electric fields of another person nervous system or use the own nervous system electricity to influence the material, could that kind of influence the movement of the roulette ball. Influencing those things would cause the difference between calculated probability and real cases. But this text is handling only the methodology, how those tests should do.