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 |
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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 |