Autoganzfeld Variable List

[R = Receiver; S = Sender; E = Experimenter]

 1. Record# (1 -- 354, sorted by Series and then within series by Session# )
 2. Series# (1, 2, 3, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 201, 301, 302)
 3. Session# (Chronologically sequenced within the series)
 4. Date of session (DD/MM/YYYY)
 5. Time session began (24-hour clock)
 6. Time session began - corrected (See note at the foot of this file)
 7. Time source for corrected time (See note at the foot of this file)
 8. Chronological Seq# (Position of session in overall chronological order (1--354))
 9. Receiver# (Males: 1--100; Females: 101--240)
10. R’s Sex
11. Sender#
12. S’s sex
13. S/R  Relationship (F = Friend; LF = Lab Friend; L = Lab Assistant)
14. Experimenter# (1--8)
15. E’s Sex
16. Target#
17. Target Name
18. Dynamic Target? (0 = Static; 1 = Dynamic)
19. Target Set#
20. Clip#1 (Numbered according to its position in the 160 clip target pool)
21. Clip#2
22. Clip#3
23. Clip#4
24. Target = Clip#n (1, 2, 3, 4)
25. Judging Sequence (1234, 2341, 3412, 4123)
26. Target’s position within the judging sequence (1--4)

[Variables 27--39 constitute the main data from the session]

27. R1 (Raw rating given to Clip#1) (1--40)
28. R2
29. R3 
30. R4 
31. z1 (R1 converted to a z score, using the mean and sample SD of all 4 ratings)
32. z2
33. z3
34. z4
35. Raw Rating given to Target (1--40)
36. z score of Target
37. Rank given to Target (1--4)
38. Hit? (0 = miss; 1 = hit)
39. Judging Position selected (Highest Rating given to clip in judging position n (1--4))

 [E1--E9 are 7-point ratings (0--6) made by E at the end of the mentation period]

40. E1: Amount of mentation
41. E2: Number of references to experimental situation during mentation
42. E3: R’s task orientation
43. E4: Residue: references to memories
44. E5: Amount of judgeable content
45. E6: NoteworthinessÑreferences to images being persistent or clear.
46. E7: Mundane to Bizarre quality of imagery
47. E8: Lability: Relative number of changes or transformations in mentation content
48. E9: E’s expectation of success
49. R’s estimate of the time spent in ganzfeld mentation
50. E’s comments on the session
51. Prompted? (Did E point out correspondences to R during the judging? 0 = no; 1 = yes) 
52. Light intensity on an arbitrary 100-point scale
53. White noise intensity on an arbitrary 7-point scale
54. AMOD? (Session conducted after the auditory modification made? 0 = no; 1 = yes)
55. Condition. Computer selected D or ND for session. Meaning unknown.
56. R Session#n (This is the receiver’s nth ganzfeld session as a receiver)
57. Total number of sessions this R served as a receiver in entire database
58. S Session#n (This is the sender’s nth ganzfeld session as a sender)
59. Total number of sessions this S served as a sender in entire database
60. E Session#n (This is the experimenter’s nth session as an experimenter)
61. Total number of sessions this E served as experimenter in entire database
62. Target Occurrence#n  (This is the nth appearance of this clip as the target)
63. Total number of sessions this target occurred as target in entire database


      [The following information refers to the receiver]

64. PIF# (Personal Information Form number)
65. Age
66. Educational level
67. Degree of Belief in psi (1 = “Don’t Believe” to 7 = “Believe Very Strongly”)
68. Number of kinds of psi experiences reported (1 point for each: Telepathy, 	Clairvoyance, Precognition, PK)
69. Mental Discipline? (e.g., Meditation, Hatha Yoga, etc.)  (0 = no; 1 = yes)
70. MBTI code (e.g., INTP)
71. EI score
72. SN score
73. TF score
74. JP score
75. Extravert? Derived from EI score above. (0 = no; 1 = yes)
76. Juilliard Student? (0 = no; 1 = yes) 
77. Lucid Dreamer? (0 = no; 1 = yes) 
78. Competitive? (1 = “Not Competitive” to 7 = “Highly Competitive”)
79. Enjoys public performances? (1 = “Not at all” to 7 = “Very Much” )
80. S aka R# (Sender also appears in the database as Receiver#)
81. E aka R# (Experimenter also appears in the database as Receiver#)
82. E aka S# (Experimenter also appears in the database as Sender#)

The following variables do not appear in the distributed database

83. R’s name
84. S’s name
85. E’s name

Note: Time Correction
Variables 6 and 7 were added by Richard Broughton, who writes: "For a re-analysis of the PRL data I had reason to pay particular attention to the start times for the trials and I noticed that quite a few sessions were recorded as starting early in the morning, which seemed unlikely from what I knew of Chuck Honorton and his team. So I went back to the written experimenter’s notes for each trial and discovered that the computer times were wildly off for segments of the data. The reason was not hard to deduce. The source of real-time for Apple II computers came from an add-in board (Mountain Hardware Apple II Clock) that had a 9-volt battery for when the computer was off. These needed occasional changing or else the clock started losing time, but there was no way of knowing that the battery needed changing without specifically checking the state of the clock. That probably did not happen as frequently as it should have. As a result of this discovery I examined the paper record for each trial and confirmed or corrected the start times for each trial.”