EXCLUSIVE: Twitter Psychic Study Results Revealed
Psychologists are turning to Twitter to test the psychic powers of social media users. We have an exclusive sneak peek at the results.
This week, psychologists from the U.K. are using Twitter to conduct a massive study about psychic powers. Now, in an eSarcasm exclusive, they’re sharing some of the results publicly for the first time.
The Twitter Psychic Study
The study, conducted in conjunction with New Scientist, aims to see whether people can “psychically identify” someone else’s physical location. Each day, a test subject will travel to a different spot in the U.K. and tweet out a link showing five photos. One of them will be his actual location. Participants will tweet back their predictions as to which image is the right spot.
From the official announcement in New Scientist on Monday:
“We think this is the first time that anyone’s used Twitter for the purposes of scientific study, but there is a long tradition of using new communications technology to conduct mass participation experiments, and particularly to test claims of psychic ability.”
Psychic Study Results
The psychologists have already sifted through thousands of messages sent in as part of the groundbreaking research. They tell us the following four tweets are representative samples of the data thus far.
“Fast Weight Loss the Safe Way Using an Acai Berry Free Trial! http://bit.ly/16xeLI” –@AmazonTreasures
“Check out this awesome new way to make money with Google! http://revtwt.com/131165″ –@beinghappy4ever
“Hi, thanks for the follow. I look forward to reading your Tweets.” –@digitalizes
“I enjoy crunchy tacos.” –@jr_raphael
In related news, researchers worldwide have just pulled all plans for future Twitter-based research.
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