Begin with a testable claim
Different research programs investigate different proposed abilities: remote viewing, telepathy, precognition, and anomalous influence are not the same hypothesis. Identify the task, the target, the scoring rule, and the ordinary information channels that must be excluded.
Ganzfeld research
A registered meta-analysis by Tressoldi and Storm examines ganzfeld experiments spanning more than four decades and reports an aggregate anomalous-perception effect. Its analysis and peer-review history are a useful starting point for examining this contested literature.
The questions that matter
Was the experiment preregistered? Were participants and assessors appropriately blinded? Could information leak through ordinary channels? Were all trials reported? Examine uncertainty, publication bias, and independent replication before interpreting an above-chance result as a new ability.
Selected starting points.
These links lead to primary papers, reviews, or institutional research pages. A reading path does not imply that every source is already indexed in the Noetic Map library.
Anomalous perception in a Ganzfeld condition: A meta-analysis of more than 40 years investigationTressoldi & Storm · F1000Research · 2024 revision · Registered meta-analysisDivision of Perceptual Studies: research programsUniversity of Virginia · Institutional research overview