This exercise is an at-home experiment to test your PK abilities, and perhaps work on developing them.

All you will need to conduct this experiment is a coin, preferably a quarter with clearly visible heads and tails (no cheating with two-headed or two-tailed coins allowed!). In this experiment, you will toss the coin 100 times, for three rounds. The goal of this experiment is to try and use PK to influence the outcomes of the coin toss. By chance, one should receive an outcome of approximately 50 heads and 50 tails. Your goal is to try and get a significant amount higher than chance would predict, for example, 65 heads.

Start by first tossing the coin 100 times and focusing on making it land heads-up. Be sure to record your results. Now toss the coin 100 times again, but this time trying to make it land tails-up. Again, record your results. For the third round, toss the coin 100 times, but do not try and influence it in any way (this is known as the control round). As always, record the results.

So, now that you've finished and have your results, how do you know if PK was at work? Well, as stated above, chance would predict that you would get about a 50-50 distribution in the results. Check your control round. Were these results about chance? Next check the results of your heads-influence round. Were you able to get a significant amount of heads over what resulted in your control period? What about your tails-influence period? Was that successful?

Do not be discouraged if any PK effects seemed minuscule, or not present at all, on your first try. Practice with the coin tosses. Work on developing a PK method to influence the results, then try again (this might consist of visualizing your desired result, mentally willing the coin to fall on the desired side, using hand motions--but not physical contact--to try and sway the coin, etc). After a while, you may be in for a pleasant surprise.