Open Lab · Experiment 001
Remote Perception Study 001
Can a participant describe a randomly selected image they have never seen at a rate above chance?
Before you begin
Step 1
A target is committed
The server draws one image at random from the active pool and records it against your trial before you begin.
Step 2
You describe your impressions
Free text plus a small set of structured impressions — indoor or outdoor, natural or artificial, water, people, movement.
Step 3
Your response is locked
The text is hashed with SHA-256 and stored immutably. This is the point of no return.
Step 4
You judge four candidates
The committed target and three decoys are shown in a randomised order. You pick the closest match.
Step 5
The target is revealed
Only after your decision is recorded. Your trial then joins the aggregate record.
Chance performance in this design is 1 in 4 (25%). Taking part does not require believing in anything. Chance alone produces hits at the expected rate, and a correct trial is exactly what chance looks like part of the time.
Limitations of this design
- One trial cannot distinguish ability from chance; only large aggregates carry information.
- Participants are self-selected and unsupervised, so this design is exploratory and cannot support confirmatory claims.
- Judging is done by the participant, which introduces a known bias that later protocol versions will address with independent judges.
- The target pool is finite; repeated participation can lead to familiarity with the pool.