Jessica Utts
Biography:
Jessica Utts is a Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Davis and a leading authority on Statistics and Parapsychology. She spent a year as a Visiting Scientist with the government classified Remote Viewing Program at SRI International in 1988-89 and was a consultant for the duration of the program at SRI and SAIC. She was one of the evaluators of the government remote viewing program when it was declassified in 1995. She is also a leading expert on Statistics Education, the author of three statistics textbooks and the recipient of two awards for distinguished teaching. Jessica serves on the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and on the Board of Directors of the Parapsychological Association.
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| Tuesday May 9, 2006 |
Statistics Professor Jessica Utts shared the results of her statistical studies in remote viewing and parapsychology. Serving as a statistician for the Remote Viewing research program at SRI, and later as consultant for a government evaluation of the program, she concluded that "psychic functioning has been well established." Her findings showed that when chance would dictate a 25% accuracy rating, subjects delivered a 33% rating, which is considered statistically significant. Utts also tested a number of aspects of remote viewing, and came to the following conclusions: A sender (someone who concentrates on sending out an image) does not increase the accuracy of readings by viewers versus an unseen target. Precognition does work. (She suggested that some have access to probable futures-- though the exact future is not predetermined.) It is very difficult to locate missing persons through remote viewing. It's easier to describe what the missing person is seeing. In the latter half
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Host: George Noory
