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Jessica Utts
Statistician and remote-viewing research assessor
Also known as Utts
Who they are
Jessica Utts is a statistician who evaluated government-supported research into remote viewing for the 1995 AIR review. She argued that the experiments’ statistical results supported anomalous cognition. Her conclusion was contested by fellow reviewer Ray Hyman, while the final review treated the separate question of whether the technique was useful for intelligence work.
Her assessment is part of the timeline’s debate about statistical evidence, replication and operational usefulness.
Selected contributions
- Analyzed SRI and SAIC experimental evidence in a report arguing for psychic functioning.Source ↗
- Participated in a review whose assessors disagreed about the interpretation of the results.Source ↗Source 2 ↗
Selected works
Report · 1995
An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning
Utts argues that the statistical results of SRI and SAIC experiments support anomalous cognition. This is her contribution to a review whose other assessor, Ray Hyman, disputed whether the evidence established the phenomenon.
The 1995 title page lists the University of California, Davis; this copy is hosted on Utts’s University of California, Irvine site.
Reading scope & citation
Reuses documented prior inspection: Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication Fresh title/byline and abstract read; reuses documented prior inspection of introduction, research history and replication discussion. Not a fresh complete 33-page audit.
In the timeline
Biography sources
- An assessment of the evidence for psychic functioning ↗Jessica Utts / University of California, Irvine
- Evaluation of program on anomalous mental phenomena ↗Ray Hyman / University of California, Irvine mirror
- An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications ↗American Institutes for Research; archival copy