Self recognition test
German test subjects found themselves significantly reflected in their interpretations. In an independent scientific experiment conducted by the social scientist Edgar Wunder, there were indications of the "recognition value" of the interpretation method used in cross-connections.
Of the 14 test subjects who were each given two short character interpretations, 11 correctly assigned themselves. To rule out sources of error, pairs were formed with the same gender, star sign and approximately the same age. The percentage of correct assignments was 78.6 % (random expectation: 50 %). I quote Mr Wunder: "Significance test (binomial test, one-sided): p=0.029 (= 3 %); conclusion: a significant result. If one were to carry out 100 such tests, each with 14 allocation decisions, only 3 of these 100 tests (=3 %) would produce such a result by chance alone."
However, the significance only applies to this individual sample of 14 test subjects processed by Werner Voelkel. In order to fulfil the strictest statistical criteria, further tests would have to be carried out.
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