Anomaly of Random Number Generator Outputs - Cumulative Deviation at a Meeting and New Year's Holiday

When many people gather and do something intensively, no matter how little the people are conscious of the results of their conduct, anomalous output from the random number generator which is set around such people, occurs, so that it is recognized as a statistically significant occurrence. When a worldwide event occurs and many people notice it, random number generators set around worldwide show anomalous output. It has been a recent tendency to receive such reports. The authors carried out experiments measuring the accumulated deviation of anomalous output from a random number generator on the occasion of an international scientific conference about spiritual healing held in Hawaii, 2001 and at the New Year'S holiday in Japan, 2002. Results, experimental data were statistically significant: Z=2.32, p=0.02 (both tails) at the meeting; Z=2.11, p=0.035 (both tails) in the New Year's holiday, while controls were by chance. In further studies, it will be necessary to use plural random number generators and to compare with results of Global Consciousness Project.