Description and Informed Consent

Scientific Investigation of Gazing with Intuition at Light (v2) 

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​See this video for a 6 minute description of the experiment and a brief explanation about its purpose. Read the rest of this page and if you agree to participate, click the link at the end of the page to go to the experiment.

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Principal Investigator: Dean Radin PhD  (dradin@noetic.org)

Funded by:  Institute of Noetic Sciences

​Purpose: This online experiment tests an interpretation of quantum mechanics. 

​Who is eligible? Any adult (18+ years old) who can understand English, has access to a computer, iPhone, or Android connected to the Internet, and can maintain focused attention in an online task for 10 minutes, is invited to participate. In the Apple and Google Play Store look for the "Noetic Adventure" app.

​​Time required: The registration questionnaire will take most people about 5 minutes, and the online task will take 10 minutes. You may repeat the experimental tasks as many times as you wish. You will only fill out the questionnaire once.

Information obtained: All data gathered in this study is secure and strictly anonymous, and any voluntarily contributed email addresses will be held in confidence and used only for this experiment. If you wish, you may later request that your username and email address be completely deleted from our database.

​Approval: The study has been approved by IONS’s Institutional Review Board (RADD_2026_01_PhotonDiffraction_v2).

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Risks: There are no known risks from participating in this study. Some users may be disappointed to not perform as well on this task as they may have wanted to, but that is a risk in any scientific experiment.

​Benefits: Your participation in this study will contribute to our understanding of mind-matter interactions and interpretations of the quantum observer effect.

​Participation: Your participation is strictly voluntary, and you may quit at any time with impunity.

​Confidentiality: The questionnaire is anonymous. Your data and responses are kept on password-protected computers in password-protected files. Data collected will not be associated with your name or your computer's IP address. Individual results will not be disseminated, and published reports will not include any personally identifying information. All data from the survey and experiment will be stored only with an anonymous ID and with no identifying information.
Cost: None.

​Questions: If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints regarding this study now or in the future, contact the IONS Research Director, Dr. Helané Wahbeh, at hwahbeh@noetic.org. This research is being overseen by an Institutional Review Board (“IRB”). You may also contact the IRB Chair, Dr. Garret Yount, at gyount@noetic.org if
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• your questions or concerns are not answered by the research team.

• you wish to communicate with someone other than the research team.

• you have questions about your rights as a research subject.

• you want more information or wish to provide input about this research.
   

​If you agree to try the experiment, click here:  ​Yes, I consent to participate.