Analysis of Intellectual Resonance (or Synchronization) Using a Card Game (6) Influence of Repetition within Two Days

In a series of previous studies, we have established a method to quantitatively analyze intellectual resonance based on a concrete message. This method allows us to analyze how and to what extent intellectual resonance occurs in a group, through the use of digital information such as numbers and characters. In this method, participants take their seats and fill out special cards according to game instructions. The degree of coincidence among neighboring participants is then examined and scores the are assigned to the results. The scores are evaluated using mathematical tools within a probability theory framework. We named this trial'Synchro-X'. In this study, we analyzed the data of trials repeated within two days by 56 participants with an aim for resonance ('positive trial'). The results of our past study on Synchro-X showed that over a long-term period of ten weeks no learning effect was observed. This time we examined how the score may change with repetiton over a shorter period. Trials were done in six sessions over two days, with three series of trials in each session at two-hour intervals between each session (eighteen trials in total). The analysis showed that there was no tendency of the average score increasing as the session progressed, which suggested that no learning effect existed. Moreover, it showed that the average score of the first trials of each session was higher than that of the third trials (that is to say, the degree of coincidence was high). Hence, it was shown that the degree of coincidence falls during continuous repetition of the trial within six minutes, and no learning effect was observed over a short-term period of two days. It was suggested that the role of an intentional or conscious process was not large in the resonance phenomenon.