A Statistical Case for global consciousness

[Copernicus]

A search didnt come up with anything, apologies if its already been discussed. I'd love a better mathematician than me to explain the statistical tests in English!

An interesting project run out of Princeton that statistically tests various hypotheses that world events will measurably perturb what would otherwise be random numbers.

The methodology takes the output of random number generators at sites around the world. The data is bursts of 200 bits of data which, if random, would have a mean sum of 100. The data is then analyzed during various periods surrounding global events and varous statistical tests used to measure correlations in deviations from the mean results around the world.

This links to the page on 9/11 and the remarkable results surrounding that day's events.

The project does not yet make any claims as to existence of a global consciousness, or explanations for their results. However the results are statistically significant and say "theres something happening here, what it is aint exactly clear".