1. Dr Bernard Auriol (EuroPA meeting, November 2003)
Agape Experiment: Testing Group Telepathy (statistical study in progress)
Dr Bernard Auriol
(EuroPA meeting, November 2003)

2. A Group Experiment Protocol
H1 : The rate of hits is increased by redundancy due to vote.
H0 : The rate of hits is not increased by vote.
Protocol
A transmitting group (1-16 senders) and a receiving group (1-16 voters) were located in two isolate rooms.
Everything was monitored and recorded by computers.

3. Target’s type : either pictures (2) or words (3 or 5)
Participants : any voluntary (either sheep or goat)
sender or receiver role generally chosen by the participants
274 female (2/3)
145 male (1/3)
240 telepathic ESP group sessions:
27,845 collective trials (250,000 individual trials)

4. Results

5. Variance of success got by vote (30 trials per salvo)

6. Variance of intervals
To reach a better evaluation, we note the interval ( number of misses)
between two consecutive hits, and check the variance of these intervals
(random or not ?). 

7. Variance of the intervals
* ==> p < 0.05

8. Conclusion of the hypothesis test
This type of group experiment did not increase the psi-hitting rate
regarding either individual answers or answers obtained by vote. 
No improvement of the Signal to Noise ratio (S/N)
(redundancy got from majority vote is not effective). 
Variance was significantly weak with two targets.
But strong for three targets and normal for five.
Are these variations explainable by socio-psychological attitudes ?

9. Prospective Covariance Analysis
of success cases

10. Collective trials significantly different from chance (p <0.05)

11. The significant variables were selected thanks to a stepwise procedure
and kept under a threshold of 5%. We get significant parameters with a p-value close to

12. Sybil (Systematic bilocality)
We plan to devise a protocol to test the following hypothesis:
We can hope for success with groups
only if we build sub-groups so that there is more affinity
between receivers and senders than among receivers.
A simple sociometric test should be enough to achieve this,
provided the results for each sessions
help to distribute the roles of transmitter and receiver.