Glossary of paranormal study & research terms used both on and off this site.
There are 133 entries in this glossary.S
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sample |
A group of subjects selected from a larger group in the hope that studying this smaller group (the sample) will reveal important things about the larger group. |
| scale |
a group of related measures of a variable. The items in a scale are arranged in some order of intensity or importance. |
| Sleep Paralysis |
An (often frightening) state of seeming to being awake but unable to move. |
| Spontaneous Cases |
Paranormal phenomena that occur in everyday life, unsought and unexpected. |
| Statistics |
Mathematical techniques for analysing and interpreting numerical data. |
| subject |
an individual who is studied. |
| Subjective Paranormal Experience (SPE) |
Or Subjective Psi Experience. An experience that the person who has it believes to be paranormal. |
| survey |
A research design in which a sample of subjects is drawn from a population and studied (usually interviewed) to make inferences about the population. This design is often contrasted with the true experiment in which subjects are randomly assigned to conditions or treatments. |