Marcel Cairo, host of AfterlifeFM podcast, is a psychic medium. Today, in response to the James Randi’s Milion Dollar Challenge, he proposes his own challenge, dubbed The intuitive to inquirer (i2i) Challenge.
Challenge premise: An intuitive (medium) and an Inquirer (control) travel to a public space in a randomly chosen city and each will approach 40 randomly chosen people (the subject), and each will conduct a spontaneous reading for a randomly chosen set of subjects.
The objective of the experiment is to see if under the same test conditions, the intuitive (medium), can score higher across the 40 random readings than the inquirer (control) can.
Full text of the challenge can be read on the Official Skeptiko Podcast’s forum on this site.
Marcel also tells why he doesn’t support JREF’s Milliom Dollar Challenge. For more critique on the JREF’s challenge by other people, read About the James Randi Million dollar challenge.
I hope you find the challenge interesting and some of you will be willing to participate.
The diatribes against the Randi/JREF challenge are merely tiring. Contrary to what one hears from some pro-psychic sources, Randi and his team have accepted claimants, and performed the tests they negotiated. Those who say different are not telling the truth.
In years past, noted professional psychics took Randi's challenge. You can find video if you look. They learned that their tricks would not pass, and they are better off making even the lamest of excuses, as now we here.
Randi did not claim that he could explain large financial transfers so that people such as wrote the articles in "About the James Randi Million dollar challenge" would understand. The offer is for $1,000,000 upon success. They have the money; one can check. What interest rate JREF is making on their bonds is irrelevant.
-Bryan