assignment study · open
Does simple preparation change signal?
A brief assigned quiet-settling period changes longitudinal signal excess compared with no assigned preparation.
Publicly preregistered 8/7/2026, 10:32:27 PM
- Primary outcome
- Mean signal excess between assigned preparation arms
- Target sample
- 240
- Analysis
- Intention-to-treat difference in means with Wilson-compatible bootstrap interval; non-compliance retained and flagged.
- Correction
- Holm-Bonferroni across preregistered secondary outcomes
- Source
- Ingo Swann, Everybody’s Guide to Natural ESP, p.106.
- Mechanism
- Random assignment; intention-to-treat
Registered arms
quiet settle
Sit quietly and breathe naturally for two minutes before beginning.
no preparation
Begin the session without an added preparation exercise.
Participation is free and explicit
Consent is separate from account terms and can be revoked. Revocation excludes your data from future analyses; already-published anonymous aggregates are not retracted.
Published results
No result is publishable before the target sample is reached. Null results will appear here with the same prominence as supported findings.