Ermintruder
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all...
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I missed your suggestion until reading this now (about 9 hrs too late) but such an idea did briefly pass though my mind yesterday.Shall we Brits have a go n t'Euromillions tonight?
It's an interesting proposition: somehow beating the odds of chance via a form of 'online' (but non-internet) collaboration...whilst at the same time partly-compensating for a postulated weak PSI capability level for each individual (somehow then multiplying what may be a fractionally better-than-chance guess capability by dint of participant quantity).
It's not a unique idea, but it's maybe a while since it's been last aired: your suggestion's a good 'un I reckon @escargot (especially with this 'fresh', or becoming-relaunched UK lottery).
In the last century, various semi-secular showman/shaman/charlatans have professed to have invoked the power of plentiful populations (some may say that organised religions the world over have also always tried do this gestalt effort with their quasi-collaborative days-of-the-week (or days-of-year/ hours-of-day) prayer. Geller comes to mind (because I'm old) but there have been others that've claimed to try this, I'm sure.
A controlled parapsychological experiment that attempts to measure this putative gain-of-function-through-quantity effect *must* have been done before ( @gordonrutter - am I misremembering, or >was< this an area of study for the Professor Caroline Watt (Koestler Institute Chair holder) at one time?
We've also of course done a few forum group activity /hivemind interrogatives in the past, but have we ever tried an actual forum groupwish before? My instinct is to think we must have, but I'm not certain....
(ETA I did however buy an online Euromillions ticket yesterday on the dubious grounds of 'New' luck...if I have won anything, I shall let the forum know)