Test for ESP

The results so far

The Test for Extrasensory Perception has been published in various IQ journals and web sites. The scores from early 1997 to March 2008:

An estimate of each score's probability:

The test itself

Does Extrasensory Perception exist? Let's find out. In a chest of drawers in a corner of my office at the Paul Cooijmans Institute For Advanced Study, I keep five postcards.

1. What number is written on the first?
2. The name of which historical figure is on the second?
3. What English word is on the third?
4. What geometrical figure is drawn on the fourth? Draw.
5. What object or organism is drawn on the fifth? Draw.

If all humans would answer these questions at random, the highest score would be 2. If anyone scores 3, I start doubting about the existence of ESP, and if anyone scores 4 I consider it proven beyond reasonable doubt. If anyone scores 5, ESP exists.

The deadline for submitting answers is January 1, 2010. If no correct answers have been received by then, the test will continue for another ten years, and so on. If one or a few of the questions have been answered correctly by 2010, those may be removed then and the test may continue with the remaining questions. After withdrawal of the test the correct answers will be published and available on request. They have been legally registered early 1997.

The drawings should be recognizable but do not have to be accurate to the millimeter. Repeated attempts are allowed as long as you have not scored higher than 0. Discussions with others are not, either before, during or after taking the test and regardless if you intend to submit answers. You will only receive a score report if your score is higher than 0.

A comment sometimes made is that ESP requires a "sender" in order to work. This is not true however for phenomena like clairvoyance and "remote viewing". Only telepathy would require a "sender", but is experimentally and theoretically impossible to distinguish from the non-sender forms of ESP just named (for what appears to be telepathy can always be explained as clairvoyance or another non-sender form ESP). The claims made about "remote viewing", as supposedly applied extensively by various secret agencies, are such that a test like this one should be a realistic challenge for anyone who has seriously developed his talents in this field.

Answers to: Paul Cooijmans.

Challenge Distinction: Brennan Martin Prize for ESP

I am putting out a challenge to professed psychics to demonstrate their psychic abilities in this unique contest.

I hereby offer a monetary prize of NZD$1,500 to the person with the first perfect score performance on Paul Cooijmans "Test for ESP".

Paul Cooijmans will inform me of both the name of the "Brennan Martin Prize for ESP" prize winner, and provide me with relevant contact details to reach this entity. Arrangements for payment transfer will then commence.

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- Brennan Martin.