Participant Agreement & Instructions

WHO MAY RESPOND TO THIS SURVEY
This survey is specifically for remote viewers, remote viewing project managers, formal parapsychological and psychical researchers, and judges/analysts/statisticians who have experience participating in repeated ARV or parapsychological trials. 

If you are an intuitive reader/clairvoyant/medium who works directly with reading clients but who hasn't participated in the types of trials defined above (those using photos or objects), we may poll you in a future study, but for now, we will ask you not to participate here simply so we can narrow our focus.
 
PURPOSE
The purpose of this survey is to formally document, in a scientific manner, the extent of observed displacement effects in either associative remote viewing projects/and or other parapsychological experiments that utilize a set of photos for purposes of analysis. We are open to the possibility that such effects are not an issue so please respond honestly, openly and per your own lived experience.

In completing this short survey, you acknowledge you are participating in this project per your own free will and that your responses will remain anonymous.

Your responses will be included in a study examining the prevalence of psi displacement effects - defined as giving an extremely accurate and detailed description of the wrong photo (or another target type such as object, video, etc) within a psi-based (i.e. ARV or Dream ESP) trial or providing a highly detailed description of the wrong photo within a consecutive series of trials.

Please note: Displacement is not simply about failing to describe the target at all or well, or just finding anything that your psi-based impressions may have matched so you can feel good about being a psychic, but rather having an excellent match to a very specific photo, or to elements within that photo, that comprise the judging set. An average match to another photo in the set or sequence should not be considered displacement, but only an excellent, undeniable match to the wrong target, involving unique elements. 

Participant Agreement
This is an anonymous survey. Your responses will not be connected with identifying data.  The survey will be placed within an article that will be submitted to a scientific, peer-reviewed journal.

If you agree to the above, whether or not it appears that you have encountered examples of displacement, please continue on to the questions.

Again, please only take the survey if you have participated in repeated psi-based trials for Associative Remote Vieiwng or other parapsychological experiments.

Please note: When responding to questions - please really try to respond based ONLY on your own personal experience and not on what other experts (such as teachers, authors, researchers, have told you).

If you have questions or concerns about this survey please direct them to the lead researcher at dkatz@irva.org.

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* 1. How do you define your role in psi-based trials? If none apply please do not continue with the survey! If more than one applies choose the one that involves more management responsibilities.

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* 2. Have you participated in:

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* 3. Have you heard of the term "displacement" or "displacement effects" or "displaced psi" in relation to psi-based projects before?

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* 4. What is the level of experience as remote viewer?

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* 5. What is your level of experience managing Associative Remote VIewing Related Projects?

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* 6. What is your experience with managing other kinds of psi-based/parapsychological experiments using matching task designs for purposes of statistical analysis? (This excludes ARV projects).

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* 7. Are you or have you ever been the leader or staff of an organization, school or research laboratory or effort that conducts ARV, Psi-Based trials involving matching tasks for analysis that would give you access to observing a larger number of viewers and types of projects?

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* 8. Gender

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* 9. Have you witnessed what appeared to be clear incidents of displacement - defined as when a viewer (yourself or someone else) did an excellent job describing the wrong/unintended photo or object within the judging set?

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* 10. Have you witnessed clear incidents of time displacement not towards another photo in the judging set but to another target in a series of trials (Such as the trial that followed the present trial).

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* 11. Have you witnessed very clear incidents of displacement to something related to your project manager/experimenter?

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* 12. How serious of a problem to you feel displacement is based on your own personal experience? (as opposed to what others have said about the topic?).

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* 13. Do you feel displacement has negatively impacted your own statistics as a remote viewer?

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* 14. Do you feel displacement has negatively impacted projects you have worked on in another role BESIDES as a remote viewer or psi participant? (such as a manager, judge, etc?)

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* 15. Do you feel that you experience or witness more instances of displacement when the following procedures are used:

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* 16. Do you believe that focus on displacement might cause or increase incidents of it?

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* 17. Do you have suggestions for what can be done to minimize displacement in these projects?

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* 18. Do you have a theory of displacement based on your own personal experiences with it? If so please share.