REQUEST FOR YOUR CRITICISM OF THE STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SRI) RESULTS WITH THE RANDOM STIMULUS GENERATOR

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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 28, 1975
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OTS/CB Memo #75-60
28 May 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: ORD/LSR
SUBJECT Request for your Criticism of the
Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
Results with the Random Stimulus
Generator
1. In previous discussions you indicated your
opinion that the Random Stimulus Generator data
produced during the course of the "Perceptual
Augmentation Technique`4 by Puthoff and Targ at SRI
were of questionable value. You sighted information
that it was your understanding the machines were
not random and other procedural difficulties asso-
ciated with the experimental design. I explained
that summary data and procedures were given in
progress reports #3 and #4 and during the December
briefing which you, unfortunately, were unable to
attend. Also, partially duplicative summaries may
be found in the October 1974 Nature article published
by Targ and Puthoff and in their final report for
Contract 953653 under NASA sponsorship. The most
complete reference is the final report being com-
pleted for our contract. Attached is an advanced
copy of the relevant section of the final report.
"2. After review of the randomness tests and
the experimental procedures described in these
reports, I can find no fundamental difficulty with
the machine or the procedures. It appears that SRI
has done a thorough enough job to allow them to make
the conclusion that they have documented paranormal
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functioning within the stated statistical limits.
Since I have no practical experience with designing
and completing statistical experimental psychology
tests, I could easily have overlooked some obvious
mistake or omission which invalidates the SRI data
and conclusions. Therefore I am requesting your
aid. Specifically, are the machines random and the
experimental procedures valid? In addition to the
two specifics mentioned above, please locate and
criticize any other "soft" areas so that the SRI
research can be kept in proper perspective.
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