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“If it can be proved it must be removed.” So reads the inscription on the book of metaphysical bets. Bob Prophette and Penny Shaman took their authentic metaphysical betting stand to Port Eliot for the first time this year, giving festival goers the opportunity to put their beliefs on show and to the test. Faith, romance, magic, the after-life and the cosmos; anything that’s unprovable but true. Do you believe animals have souls? - that the universe considered as a whole is 

God? - that everything that is and will be has already been determined? Then Prophette and Shaman are the bookmakers for you. All bets are taken and civility is guaranteed.

Produced by London based art collaborators Hydra Projects and Alison Gill, the Metaphysical Betting Stand enticed punters to put their metaphysics where their mouth is. The world’s leading and only metaphysical betting stand of choice. Your chance to prove the unprovable!

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HAPPY RACING

The first results are in from the Port Eliot Festival of Racing 2012.  Favorite is Spiritualism which is on evens, followed by Belief in Witchcraft 5/4 and the Belief in Extraordinary Life Forms.  Rank outsider is Superstition at 5/1.  Watch out for more results from the individual runners.

Results of the Paranormal Beliefs Survey (Revised) (Tobacyk (2004)) from visitors to the Prophette and Shaman Metaphysical Betting Stand at the Port Eliot Festival 2012, n-25. Beliefs were rated on the Likert Sacle (1 =” Strongly Disagree” to 7 = “Strongly Agree”). Odds are calculated on the basis of the proportion of believers (“Strongly”, “Moderately” and “Slightly Agree” with belief statements) to the non-believers and the “Uncertain” (=3).  For each belief is shown the number of respondents in the believer categories (for all belief statements in that category), the number uncertain and the number not believing (e.g. 29 15 65) from which the odds were calculated e.g. 71 (16+55) to 29 or 7/3. Also sown are the min (\/) and max (/\) on the 7 point scale, the mean score (x bar) and the standard deviation (s, sample).  The bar chart and curve of best fit show the belief scores ranked from highest to lowest.