Show af P w AK 1 I ON 11 W AID 0 wr W r WIT ral al p g 1 I 1 4 4 D dr r J B rhine whose extrasensory perception tests stirred the scientific world explanations among them that cues were being given probably unconsciously sly ly to the subject by the experimenter peri menter but this could hardly be possible when the experimenter did not know himself the order of the cards until the pack had been examined AFTER the subject had finished calling another explanation is that the results are simply lucky but the odds against the kind of scoring that is being done they say at duke are so enormous as to rule this hypothesis out dr rhine assumes says one scientific writer that this same chance 1 to 5 holds straight through the 25 guesses it would if each card were returned to the deck after the call and the deck shuffled actually as a star is is removed the chances on that suit are lessened slightly and the chances on other guesses increased criticizes duke mathematics but this can hardly hold water when the subject does not know whether any guess he has made is right until he is all through guessing now the experiments with which we have dealt here include only clairvoyance the extrasensory extra sensory perception of objects characters on cards dr rhine has also conducted t exhaustive experiments in in telepathy the extrasensory extra sensory perception of mere thoughts here is how that is tested no cards are used the sender in in one room gives the ready signal to the subject in another room or miles away for that matter he then concentrates upon the first symbol the same symbols are used mentally as those appearing on the ESP cards chosen at random the subject records what he believes the symbol to be after ten seconds there is another signal and the operation is repeated and so on through 25 calls at the finish oi of the run the subjects record is checked against the order of the symbols as recorded by the experimenter some subjects actually made higher scores in the telepathic tests than they did in the objective tests in three daily trials one subject made scores of 19 16 and 16 in her first experience in ESP work and s she he was stationed miles from the sender with ranges of mountains separating them radio kadio telepathy test it is telepathic tests similar in some ways to these which are being being employed on the zenith foundations radio program in the first program listeners listener s were told that a selecting machine in the studio would be operated seven times during the test each time selecting a color black or white if indeed they may be called colors A committee of ten scientific observers wo would uld after each selection concentrate upon that selection for a period of ten seconds listeners were also asked to concentrate and keep a record of what they believed the selections to bo be the observers were sworn to secrecy and the machine was operated in a closed booth selections were recorded but kept under lock and key not to be opened for a week when listeners records aou would d have time to reach the studio unbeknownst even to the sponsors or to the studio attaches att a ches or listeners the observers burp purposely left the third and seventh trials blank t to 0 determine whether the public at large naturally has a preference for for either black or white which might affect its choice in the other trials in which the machine actually selected a black or white space approximately 20 per cent of those who replied called four of the five actual trials correctly a mark one third over chance expectation but most interesting of all is the fact that a sizable number of listeners who sent in all five answers correctly also designated blanks on the third and seventh trials although they were not told that these trials were blanks 0 western newspaper union |