Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300090001-9 Characteristic Accuracy and reliability Use of redundancy to improve Signal-to-noise ratio 8 Robustness of phenomena Distribution of psi capacity in population; identifica- tion of good subjects Improvement potential Table 5 (continued) Known Analysis of remote-viewing transcripts generated by experienced subjects indicates that for a given target site, roughly two- thirds of the subject-generated material constitutes an accurate description of the site, while about one-third is ambiguous, general, or incorrect Redundancy, whereby more than one individual attempts to collect data on a given target, improves reliability by reducing the effect of the biases of individual subjects Continuing demonstrations at SRI and repli- cations in other laboratories indicate that the capability known as "remote viewing" is a robust human perceptual ability Abilities appear widespread, though latent; volunteers with no previous history of psi functioning exhibit ability in screening experiments, indicating that reliance on the availability of special subjects may not be necessary Subjects trained over a several-year period have shown improved performance both with regard to accuracy and reliability Unknown Achievement levels to be reasonably expected Optimum number of subjects for efficient utilization of this approach Percentage of population with natural talent or trainable; optimum screening procedures; medical or psychological profile of good sub jects Whether near-perfect results as sometimes obtained can become routine Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300090001-9 ® ” ® , i » » i)
6E | 4 A 4 & \ . & % Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300090001-9 Characteristic Technological considerations Theoretical considerations TOS Table 5 (concluded) Known Low-level perturbation of equipment observable during remote viewing (magnetometer, noise, and nuclear decay driven random event generator) Phenomena characteristics often appear to be at variance with present scientific models Source: Compiled by the authors Unknown Degree to which phenomena can be stabilized, mechanized, energy stored; to what extent psi processes can be ampli- fied by technological means Precise mechanisms responsible for the phenomena; relationship of phenomena to electromagnetic, quantum, and so forth bases of present scientific understanding; whether the data can be accounted for within the framework of physics as presently understood or on the basis of conservative extrapola- tions that have been proposed to account for other (nonpsi) data Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300090001-9
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