Let's assume some individual, say A, conducts from time to time telepathy tests with other persons. In these tests, he (assuming this person is a male) is always the "sender"; during his experiments, he focuses on integral numbers (ranging, say, from 1 to 5 inclusive), views them several times and repeats them silently (with his "inner voice"), attempting to communicate them to his current partner. All precautionary measures are assumed to have been taken to make sure there is no sensory leak, e. g. there is a suitable screen between A and his partners, his partners are too far to be able to see and identify the number through visual perception, and so on.
A has received in particular two answers.
Answer 1:
I have really no idea what your number is. Nonetheless, I answer "3", but I warn you this is a completely random choice.
Answer 2:
In this answer, the other person seems to take A's test more seriously. She/he says:
I believe it's a 2, I think I saw it briefly like on my "mental screen". I also feel I "heard it", but with an impoverished sound, not a sound with all the harmonic richness and frequencies that you usually perceive when you listen to a sound propagating in the air, with your ears (provided you have a good sense of hearing, of course).
Now my question is: which (numerical) answer seems more credible to you? The first one (3), or the second one (2)? Note that I am not asking here which answer (in the sense of "set of words") is more credible, but, rather, which numerical answer is more credible, taking the words into account.
I ask this question because I've found that assessing credibilities was an important aspect in the online telepathy tests I've been doing.
A has received in particular two answers.
Answer 1:
I have really no idea what your number is. Nonetheless, I answer "3", but I warn you this is a completely random choice.
Answer 2:
In this answer, the other person seems to take A's test more seriously. She/he says:
I believe it's a 2, I think I saw it briefly like on my "mental screen". I also feel I "heard it", but with an impoverished sound, not a sound with all the harmonic richness and frequencies that you usually perceive when you listen to a sound propagating in the air, with your ears (provided you have a good sense of hearing, of course).
Now my question is: which (numerical) answer seems more credible to you? The first one (3), or the second one (2)? Note that I am not asking here which answer (in the sense of "set of words") is more credible, but, rather, which numerical answer is more credible, taking the words into account.
I ask this question because I've found that assessing credibilities was an important aspect in the online telepathy tests I've been doing.
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