Best Practices

Ways to do things that have been shown to be more useful than others. The norm by which other practices are measured. Please note that the ATransC Collective was established for community editing of Best Practices, but due to lack of participation, the Collective has been closed and all draft practices are now maintained here.

Rating Survival Related Paranormalist Media

Rating Survival-Related Paranormalist Media Abstract The objective of this practice is to establish a meaningful measure which can be used by readers to rate paranormalist community media. (1) It will give people a way to tell future experiencers what to expect by assigning a value on a five-star scale. The rating is also intended to … Read more

Characteristic Test for EVP

Also at atransc.org/characteristic-test-for-evp/ These practices are recommendations provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Alike 3.0 Unported License   Sponsor(s) Tom Butler Abstract There are a number of characteristics commonly associated with Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). If a possible EVP does not exhibit at least some of these characteristics, it may be prudent to set it … Read more

Research Practitioner

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Also at atransc.org/research-practitioner/ These practices are recommendations provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Alike 3.0 Unported License Sponsor(s) Tom Butler Abstract To conduct research, it is necessary to have a reliable way to collect transcommunication examples. This practice is concerned with qualifying and grading practitioners in a standardized way that lends itself to statistical studies. … Read more

Sharing EVP

Also at atransc.org/sharing-evp/ These practices are recommendations provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Alike 3.0 Unported License Sponsor(s) Tom Butler Abstract The phenomenal voices of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) are typically classified in terms of how well an untrained listener can be expected to understand the utterance. Research is showing that, on average, a listener … Read more

Witness Panel

Also at atransc.org/witness-panel/ These practices are recommendations provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Alike 3.0 Unported License Abstract One of the biggest problems in ITC is the difficulty practitioners have in assessing the quality of examples. Even examples that are considered Class A, which should be correctly seen or heard without prompting, are shown to … Read more