Read all about it, the Twitter Remote Viewing experiment by New Scientist and the University of Hertfordshire has failed — 2.0 style.

If you haven’t heard about this psychic experiment conducted over the popular social website, Twitter, the University of Hertfordshire and New Scientist came together to do research about whether people could actually remote view.

According to the Wall Street Journal:

Prof. Wiseman lodged himself at a secret location on four occasions last week and solicited input from Twitterers around the world to chime in on where they thought he was. After they did that, he tweeted a Web site where participants could choose between five photos representing the correct location and four decoys.

Most got it wrong. “In the first trial I was looking at a striking modern building, but a majority — 35% — of the group thought that I was in some woods,” he said. “The same pattern emerged in all four trials.”

Interestingly, Prof. Wiseman says those who believed in the paranormal (38% of the Twitter participants) were more likely than the skeptics to “convince themselves there was a high level of correspondence between their thoughts and the target.” He says that sort of creative thinking may be what’s necessary for someone to believe in the paranormal.

Even more than the study results, he thinks the study showed the potential for Twitter and other social-networking sites to conduct research.

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In my opinion, the research done was a waste of time and money by New Scientist and the University of Hertfordshire. It shed no light on what remote viewing really is, but conducting a trivial scientific study with a terrible approach. Perhaps Richard Wiseman, the Research Group Leader of this psychic experiment, could do a better one which would treat Remote Viewers with respect — where they would actually do a real scientific study on this amazing and powerful skill.

Twitter can be a powerful system as it is very popular, but like everything — scientific proof and reasoning should come from a solid base. No wonder it was an epic failure, Web 2.0 style.

What do you think about these results?

I just found this really cool organization that is conducting a worldwide internet remote viewing project.  Basically, they give out some coordinates and ask everyone to remote view these objects using their corresponding coordinates.  Once you’ve viewed the object, you email them saying what you’ve seen plus some other details.

The aim of the project is to collect all the information and see what are the results of doing a world wide remote view.

They have yet to publish their results as they are still collecting more information from Remote Viewers, so if you want to test out your skills check out the website at ProjectRV.com

This table comes from the About.com Paranormal Phenomena survey which follows their article, “WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT… REMOTE VIEWING” (click here to read)

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About Poll: Is remote viewing something you’d like to learn?

Is remote viewing something you’d like to learn?

Yes. (2076)            92%  

No.  (121)              5%    

Not sure.  (46)        2%    

Total Votes: 2243

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I will pose the same question to you: Is remote viewing something you’d like to learn? Leave a comment in the box below.

Dr. Hein is the director of the Institute for Resonance in Boulder, Colorado. The Institute is devoted to the study of subtle-energy sciences including remote viewing, crop circles and related subjects. Dr. Hein has a Ph.D. in sociology and has previously taught research methodology and statistic courses. Dr. Hein first learned remote viewing in 1996 and subsequently became involved in crop circle research. In addition to assisting with Institute for Resonance crop circle tours he continues to teach remote viewing in Boulder and in Japan.

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