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Zener cards

Pearce, a student at the Divinity School of Duke University. Pratt was the experimenter, and Rhine acted as data collector for all series and coexperimenter on the last. Procedurally, this was a clairvoyance experiment. The experimenter put cards in a designated spot at a designated time without turning them over and looking at them. Thus, there was no one trying to act as a sender. The targets were the well-known Zener cards, a deck of twenty-five cards, five each of five different symbols (a cross, a square, a circle, wavy lines, and a star). [Pg.24]

As for the second alternative, in the Pearce-Pratt experiment, we can objectively and precisely define what chance is and determine whether the results are significantly different from it. When you are guessing the identity of a deck of Zener cards (without looking at each card after guessing it), it is obvious (to scientifically accepted logic systems) that you have a l-in-5... [Pg.25]


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