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. 2023 Feb 1;10(2):191375. doi: 10.1098/rsos.191375

Table 1.

Characteristics of the Collaborating Laboratories. Note: Total N and Total # of erotic trials represent participants and trials which were included in the main confirmatory analysis (participants with at least one valid erotic trial); ASGS: Australian Sheep Goat Scale, ASGS scores in the table are total scores calculated by summing the scores of the individual items. ASGS total scores range from 0 to 36 with higher scores indicating greater belief in ESP. Where a laboratory had multiple Site-PIs, the ASGS score is the mean of the PIs' total scores. ‘Not disclosed’ means that the laboratory members did not give permission for that data point to be disclosed in order to protect personal data such as the ASGS score of a certain individual or the identity of the experimenters on the trial session video recordings.

institution country language total N total no. of erotic trials no. of experimenters site-PI name site-PI ASGS mean experimenter ASGS
ELTE Hungary Hungarian 944 16 930 6 Balázs Aczél 2 1.3
not disclosed Japan Japanese 101 1818 2 not disclosed 6 0.5
Southern Illinois University USA English 205 3690 1 Kathleen Schmidt 0 7
not disclosed not disclosed not disclosed 53 907 2 not disclosed 0 8
Willamette University USA English 149 2668 3 not disclosed 1 6.6
University of Amsterdam The Netherlands English 101 1803 4 not disclosed 11 11.8
University of Ottawa Canada English 59 1062 3 Denis Cousineau 0 8.3
University of Tartu Estonia Estonian 106 1908 2 not disclosed 0.5 0.5
Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon Portugal Portuguese 106 1862 2 Patrícia Arriaga 5 2
University of Padova Italy Italian 291 5188 1 Patrizio Tressoldi 23 22