Paul Ramsay is a Magician and Hypnotist who hosts his awe-inspiring, interactive stage hypnosis show, Mind Games. During the show, Paul Ramsay will hypnotize audience members, allowing them to become characters in the show right before your eyes. 

Paul typically uses polling technology to interact with his audience and have them vote on what happens next during the show. Recently, Paul Ramsay has been using this interactivity to survey college students about their stress levels before and after viewing or participating in his show. 

Surveying Students’ Stress Levels

The following data was polled on a group of 73 college students, before his show began:

Before Paul Ramsay started his Mind Games show, he asked students to measure their stress levels between 0 and 4. Here are the results:

• 12 students (16.4%) reported having no stress at all
• 16 (21.9%) reported being a little stressed
• 28 (38.4%) reported having average stress
• 13 (17.8%) reported being more stressed than usual
• 4 ( 5.5%) reported being super stressed

The majority of students reported having an average amount of stress before the show. This is not too unusual, as college students are known for having to be worried about several different aspects at once. College isn’t easy! With assignments, classes, social life, sports, and activities, the stress can mount! 

What is truly fascinating is the stark difference that Paul noticed when polling the audience after the completion of the show. 

After experiencing MIND GAMES, the students gave these answers for their stress levels:

• 25 students (34.2%) reported having no stress at all                   (+17.8%)
• 23 (31.5%) reported being a little stressed                                   (+9.6%)
• 17 (23.3%) reported having average stress                                 (-15.1%) 
• 4 (5.5%) reported being more stressed than usual                      (-12.3%)
• 3 ( 4.1%) reported being super stressed                                      (-1.4%) 
• One student who filled out the 1st survey did not fill out the 2nd

Interpreting Stress Data

More than twice as many students reported having no stress at all as there was before the show.

Before the show, the majority of students had average stress levels, whereas after Mind Games, the majority of students had no stress levels.

The three highest amounts of stress levels had significant decreases, while those with no stress or little stress saw great increases.

Before the show, over half (61.7%) of students reported having average or higher stress levels. After Mind Games, this number decreased to only 32.9%

What this Means for Students and Stress

We can conclude that Paul Ramsay’s show Mind Games does significantly decrease stress levels in college students, but that’s not all this is about. From this data, we can make some assumptions about entertainment in the college or university setting.

It has long been assumed that entertainment is an effective way of reducing stress levels, and that seems true for just about anyone you talk to. Students are often in need of this kind of stress-reducing events and entertainment that comes in healthy and safe ways. The unfortunate truth is that the most effective ways of reducing stress at college are often unsafe or at the very least, damaging to the academic lifestyle.

That’s why Paul Ramsay’s Mind Games is so important. The data shows that this show was extremely effective at reducing students’ stress levels, while still being a safe, clean, fun show that doesn’t do any damage to the students’ lifestyle or academic habits. 

Event Entertainment for College Students

This study shows how important entertainment can be to reducing stress levels as a whole. While Paul Ramsay’s show was the tool used to measure this data, the information speaks more towards event-oriented entertainment for college students. We have seen how smaller, “homegrown” events have become more popular in the last few years, but it’s always been clear to us that live entertainment is not dead, and deserves its place in a student activity budget. 

There are so many different kinds of events or entertainment you could bring to your college, Live Speakers, Comedians, Novelty Events, and much, much more. All of these events are entertaining and fun for college students to participate in. They are good ways to spend some free hours while going through campus life.

All of these events, however, are more beneficial to college students than simply being entertaining. Many events like Mind Games help reduce stress levels. Other events can connect students in ways that can’t be achieved otherwise. Many forms of entertainment engage students and help them think about things in a new light.

Regardless of all that, having planned entertainment makes your students feel more part of your campus community. With the divide between commuters and people who live on campus being so great, opportunities to get this collective sense of community are worthwhile. 

You can bring Paul Ramsay and his stress-reducing hypnotist show, Mind Games, to your college. Alternatively, plan for other forms of safe, engaging entertainment for your students with our extremely large selection of events. Contact us today to see how we can help your students have an amazing time!