This video is from the SSE-PA 2021 Conference. Ulf Holmberg tests for the validity of the hypothesis underlying the Global Consciousness Projects (GCP) i.e., the hypothesis that events which elicit widespread emotion or draw the simultaneous attention of large numbers of people, may affect the output of hardware generated random numbers. The hypothesis is tested for by calculating daily aggregates out of the second-by-second data generated by the GCP and then correlating them with Google Trends search data. More specifically, changes in global attention are proxied with variations in the popularity of global internet searches which is used to construct a monthly search word index.
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