Research Program / Claims / psychometry-11
The success of a psychometry experiment is directly related to the subject's subjective state; over-preparation or expectancy may instead reduce the effect.
一次感应实验的成败与感应者主观状态直接相关，过度准备或预期反而会降低效果。
Concept psychometry · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · mechanism · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable
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Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Main experiment: approximately 360 participants are randomly assigned to different preparation durations and expectancy induction conditions; each person completes 40 trials of double-blind target matching; measure state anxiety, drowsiness, and subjective confidence; pre-register linear and inverted-U models of preparation amount; duration 6 months. Supplementary question 3: recruit an additional approximately 200 participants, each completing 6–8 trials crossing wakefulness and sleep-onset transition, using EEG and EOG to confirm N1 state, aiming for about 40 valid trials per state. An independent remote server uniformly generates digits 0–9, viewed by an isolated sender or not viewed by anyone; participants and on-site staff are unaware of the target; reports and pendulum selections are locked before unblinding. Test whether N1 hit rate exceeds 10% and is significantly higher than the wakefulness baseline; analysis accounts for participant and session clustering; project about 12 months.
Suggested paper title
Preparation, Expectancy, and Hypnagogic State in Blinded Random-Digit Identification
What it would overturn
Psychological state affecting ordinary performance does not overturn mainstream theory; only if N1-state reliable identification of remote random digits occurs with no information channel would this challenge the assumption that internal imagery is statistically independent of isolated random targets.
Candidate labs / funders
Beat Meier，伯尔尼大学; Christine Anne Simmonds-Moore，西佐治亚大学; Michael Inzlicht，多伦多大学; BIAL Foundation
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'Over' does not provide a threshold, and 'directly related to subjective state' does not specify variables; if one is allowed to define poor states after failure, the claim becomes unfalsifiable.
Note
A pendulum cannot serve as an independent ground truth; hearing 'twelve oh five' must first rule out time estimation and environmental cues; one cannot post-hoc select numbers matching the report for scoring.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim psychometry-11, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/psychometry-11