Mythopoeika
I am a meat popsicle
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Coal, are you a researcher or statistician?True. But one can't use just one pair of subjects. Equally one 'reciever' person showing high scores doesn't prove there is ESP. Sample size matters. That's the difficulty with one person showing ESP like behaviour. In a population of 8 billion, there are always people who consistently guess right and pick numbers that come up. Law of averages as it were.
In my hypothetical experiment, I'd want a large sample of 'senders' and 'receivers' and I'd expect some pairs to do better than chance, because they just do. The data analysis then shows the possibility of this being a chance result (or not).
(There are also potential issues with the 'randomness' of random number generators and random numbers picked by people, which aren't really random).
For the sake of argument, if I got (say) five pairs (out of 100) who perform better than chance, I could run a second trial with just those pairs, but more 'data runs' to see if an effect persisted. Or, better, would be to re-run the whole thing with the same 100 'pairs' and see if the same 'pairs' kept scoring above chance and analyse the odds of that. Especially if I didn't tell the subjects what they got last time.
How much money do you you think it would cost to do this research properly?
Have you thought about raising money for it through Patreon (or similar)?