Merged Telepathy test: which number did I write?

[JJM 777]

1 no wait 3....ummm or 2..... maybe 4....you know what? I don't know.

WRONG.

Correct: 1 no wait 3....ummm or 2..... maybe 4.... it is a small number, smaller than many other numbers. Relatively speaking. But it is not very small, many numbers are yet smaller.

 

[Michel H]

MD5 hash generators are reliable. They don't encrypt data they just give you a way to verify information.

OK, following comments by Drs_Res (posts #4 and #36), Mongrel (post #23) and ynot (post #33) above, here is a cryptographic hash for a sentence containing the number I ask you to telepathically guess (like: "the x6f number is 5, nnot 6" for example):
629061cac7498b43c0489e2426c01a5838fc7db3f9a4dbccbdb531e7bd6385a7

It was obtained on this website: h ttp://xorbin.com/tools/sha256-hash-calculator
(please, remove the space between "h" and "t" in this modified URL).
I shall reveal the actual sentence I used to produce this SHA-256 hash at the end of the test, after I have revealed the integer number between 1 and 4 to guess. This way, you'll be able to verify my number.

 

[ebardos]

42

No, that was the number I was thinking of. Hey, maybe you are psychic after all, just misdirected.

 

[Michel H]

Why not use a totally random number service like random.org/integers/ ?

I could use the website you mention, uvar. As a matter of fact, I think I shall use it on my next test here (if I do one).

 

[Turgor]

How does this relate to telepathy? Have you researched the meaning of the word?

I was thinking the same thing. It looks like this test would be better suited for remote viewing.

I'm offering 2 to 1 odds for everyone that picked just one number and thinks they got it right btw.

 

[xtifr]

So, to determine if this...whatever it is...actually has anything to do with telepathy, we need to determine what the odds of...success?...are by random chance. Assuming we can define what "success" even means here.

Wait! This actually sounds like a better test of telepathy. I'm writing down what I've calculated the odds are that this so-called experiment will provide any useful information about anything. Anyone want to try to read my mind and tell me what number I wrote down?

 

[Ladewig]

As I DO have ESP, the answer is unequivocably 3.

You are amateur.
Watch how a professional does it.

I am seeing a curve. it is hard to make out through the mists - I guess that means it could be three or two. But I am also seeing something next to the curve I am looking at - very difficult to perceive - is that a straight line? I can tell with certainty that before you wrote the number down you were thinking very much about three. Also, you have a relative that has passed on and this number means a great deal to that relative. Also, the number is near water. I am also sensing the color purple very strongly, but I don't know why. Also, the number has a message for you - the number is at peace and is in a very loving place.

Will you be paying with cash or credit?

 

[Ladewig]

So, to determine if this...whatever it is...actually has anything to do with telepathy, we need to determine what the odds of...success?...are by random chance. Assuming we can define what "success" even means here.

Wait! This actually sounds like a better test of telepathy. I'm writing down what I've calculated the odds are that this so-called experiment will provide any useful information about anything. Anyone want to try to read my mind and tell me what number I wrote down?

I'm getting nothing. Sorry.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

You are amateur.
Watch how a professional does it.

I am seeing a curve. it is hard to make out through the mists - I guess that means it could be three or two. But I am also seeing something next to the curve I am looking at - very difficult to perceive - is that a straight line? I can tell with certainty that before you wrote the number down you were thinking very much about three. Also, you have a relative that has passed on and this number means a great deal to that relative. Also, the number is near water. I am also sensing the color purple very strongly, but I don't know why. Also, the number has a message for you - the number is at peace and is in a very loving place.

Will you be paying with cash or credit?

That's amazing. How did you know? You really got my number to a tee. That's exactly what my number's like. Can I pay for more sessions in advance?

 

[xtifr]

I'm getting nothing. Sorry.

And we have a winner!

eta: (See, vaudeville's not dead!)

 

[squealpiggy]

Hi, I invite you to participate in a simple telepathy test.

At about 16:39 on this Thursday August 9 (Brussels, Belgium time), I wrote carefully one of the four numbers: "1", "2", "3", "4" on my sheet of paper, and I surrounded it with a circle. Then, I wrote it again twice.

I shall repeat this number from time to time during this test.

It was selected using this random number generator: h ttp://psychicscience.org/random.aspx (please remove the space between the "h" and the "t" in this modified URL).

I ask you to write it here (if you think you know it, even with a doubt). You may also answer "I don't know".

So, your answer should be one of the four numbers: "1", "2", "3", "4", or "I don't know".

A comment might also be useful.

Thank you for participating.

NOTE: I should of course come back to tell you what the right answer is, and who answered correctly (if anyone did).

Sixty nine dude!

 

[calwaterbear]

As I DO have ESP, the answer is unequivocably 3.

wrong oh! I do indeed have ESP, and know for a fact that he wrote 2!

 

[Michel H]

Could I suggest, though, that you look into the poll function on the forums? You may need to have made more posts to use it, but there are plenty of more light-headedhearted sub-forums where you can quickly amass some.

Dave

Good idea, Dave . I might post a poll on my next test on this forum (if I do one). By the way, I don't think a minimum number of posts is necessary to make a poll (this applies, to my knowledge, only to URLs), I have already begun making one in the Test sub-forum, in the "Forum Help & Member Support" section. Information about poll creating is here:
h ttp://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=223872&highlight=poll (please remove space between "h" and "t" in this modified URL).

 

[fromdownunder]

The number has to be between one and four, because the answer to any number higher than four is "a suffusion of yellow"

Norm
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=A Suffusion of Yellow

 

[Nay_Sayer]

-7 or pi

What do I win?

 

[devnull]

absolutely, positively 4.

 

[Pup]

I predict the conclusion of this study will be: approximately one in four people is telepathic.

 

[Akhenaten]

I predict the conclusion of this study will be: approximately one in four people is telepathic.

Is that taking into consideration the perverse delight that most of us take in picking anything but the numbers given in the OP?

 

[Agatha]

I predict there will be a large amount of noting the hits and ignoring the misses.

 

[Agatha]

Is that taking into consideration the perverse delight that most of us take in picking anything but the numbers given in the OP?

Oy! Who are you calling perver... oh, fair enough. As you were