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More common in recent years have been ESP dream studies in which participants sleep at home and record their dreams at the bedside or in the morning. The dream reports are later brought to the laboratory where they are compared with the target or targets that had been randomly allocated for their session using appropriate blind judging techniques. While such studies cannot offer the same degree of precision and control as sleep labs, results continue to demonstrate that dreams are a valuable source of ESP evidence. 7 The Ganzfeld Technique The Assistant: The spectator chooses an ESP card. Your card is a face made up of the ESP symbols. This is the face of your 'assistant'. The card is rubbed face down against the spectator's card, and when it's turned over the face has changed; the spectator's symbol has vanished! Bem, D.J. (2011). Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. Journal of Personal and Social Psychology 100, 407-25. Once Rhine took precautions in response to criticisms of his methods, he was unable to find any high-scoring subjects. [10] Results in the direction of psi-hitting are indicated by a positive z score, whereas a negative z score indicates results in the direction of psi-missing.

As for what I think? Well, I am either extremely un-psychic, or Zener cards don’t work. I’ve never done especially well on Zener cards tests; indeed, the last time I took one, I scored six — right within the expected range of cards guessed correctly by chance. Ted, if you get a chance / have the inclination to add them to the initial list, here are the details: For this reason, ESP Cards (often called 'Zener Cards') were designed in the 1930s by perceptual psychologist Karl Zener for his colleague J.B. Rhine. Rhine used these cards extensively for experiments in extrasensory perception (ESP), including telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition. Christopher, Milbourne (1971). ESP, Seers & Psychics. Crowell. ISBN 978-0690268157 . Retrieved 18 May 2018. Wild Cards : 5 cards are shown with a square printed on their face. One by one, the cards magically transform to reveal four other colourful ESP symbols, a star, a cross, a circle and waves.Cogan, Robert. (1998). Critical Thinking: Step by Step. University Press of America. p. 227. ISBN 978-0761810674 "When an experiment can't be repeated and get the same result, this tends to show that the result was due to some error in experimental procedure, rather than some real causal process. ESP experiments simply have not turned up any repeatable paranormal phenomena." Critics have claimed that the RV programme was not in fact useful to the military. When funding eventually ceased, the CIA commissioned an overall assessment of the programme, which proved generally negative. In the earliest experimental series, an ‘outbounder’ would actually visit a location (within the San Francisco Bay area) and serve as a beacon for the subject. However, this was abandoned as targeting became global and the research team (including the subjects) found it unnecessary. Georges Charpak, Henri Broch, and Bart K. Holland (2004). Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience. Johns Hopkins University. ISBN 0-8018-7867-5. ESP cards have become synonymous with mentalism ever since they were first used in the 1930s to test for psychic phenomena. The undeniable allure of the five simple shapes have earned them a place in popular culture and now it's your turn to do the alluring.

Smith, J. C. (2009). Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit. Wiley. ISBN 978-1444310139 . Retrieved 18 May 2018.The statistical procedure used is known as the z-test.This compares the number of hits obtained with the number expected by chance guesswork. Park, Robert L. (2002). Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud. Oxford University Press. pp.40–41. ISBN 978-0198604433 . Retrieved 21 May 2018. The scientific consensus does not view extrasensory perception as a scientific phenomenon. [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] Skeptics have pointed out that there is no viable theory to explain the mechanism behind ESP, and that there are historical cases in which flaws have been discovered in the experimental design of parapsychological studies. [32] In this test, a card is selected on each trial by a pseudo-random computer algorithm. There is no discernible pattern to the sequence of cards.

Of course, ESP doesn't exist and you'd never claim to have mind reading powers. But nothing is hidden from God, not even our innermost thoughts. 'Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.' Psalm 139:4 Polidoro, Massimo (2001). Final Séance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Conan Doyle. Prometheus Books. pp. 171–172. ISBN 978-1591020868.The programme had its roots in Cold War concerns on the part of the US government that the Soviet Union might be developing a programme of psychic spying (which turned out later to be true) 10 and its desire to see what was possible in this regard. Physicists Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ led the initial effort, joined later by physicist Edwin C May, who directed the government programme for its second decade, eventually taking the research to LFR, of which he is director. Equipped with the new cards, and using simple probability statistics to evaluate the results, Rhine began testing students. A few subjects emerged who could consistently guess the cards better than chance. Having accumulated thousands of trials with exceptionally high odds against chance as an explanation, the Duke team felt justified in concluding that ‘extrasensory perception’ (ESP), as Rhine dubbed it, had been demonstrated, and they went on to explore the topic in relation to the effects of certain drugs, stimulants, fatigue, etc. Their results suggested that psychic ability seemed to follow natural laws similar to other psychological phenomena, evidence that Rhine used to argue that ESP was a natural ability, not a miracle. Eventually a total of eight special subjects were identified, and these contributed thousands more trials in experiments designed to investigate possible differences between clairvoyance and telepathy, and the importance or otherwise of the distance between the agent (who saw the cards) and the subject. Regardless, there’s no denying the legacies both Rhine and Zener have left. Duke University, for example, did actually have a Parapsychology Lab for a number of decades — and although it was originally started in 1919, almost a decade before either Rhine or Zener arrived on campus, its most heavily documented years span from 1930 to 1965 — right when Rhine and Zener were beginning their work with the Zener cards. After Rhine left Duke in 1965, he founded the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, which later became the still-operating Rhine Research Center; it’s considered to be the successor to the Duke Parapsychology Lab. Rhine’s book, Extra-Sensory Perception, remains highly cited by those who believe in ESP, and the peer-reviewed journal he established, the Journal of Parapsychology, is still published today. He’s considered to be the founder of parapsychology as we know it, and his influence has spread far and wide. Rouder, J.N., Morey, R.D. & Province, J.M. (2013). A Bayes factor meta-analysis of recent extrasensory perception experiments: Comment on Storm, Tressoldi, and Di Risio (2010). Psychology Bulletin 139, 241-47.

Polidoro, Massimo (October 2018). "A Telepathy Investigation". Skeptical Inquirer. 42 (5): 21–23 . Retrieved 22 August 2018.Joseph Banks Rhine and his wife and fellow parapsychologist Louisa Rhine attended séances when they first became interested in psychical research, but were not impressed. As trained scientists (both had PhDs in biology), they realized that progress in the field would have to be rooted in the experimental method. JB Rhine was invited to join psychologist William McDougall at Duke University in North Carolina in 1927; by 1930, Rhine had his own laboratory and began developing the methodology for which he and the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory would become famous. Initially, Rhine followed earlier examples, trying card guessing with numbers stamped on cards sealed in envelopes, but this was not very successful. Rhine then had the idea of asking a colleague, Karl Zener, a perceptual psychologist, to design a new set of target cards that could be easily distinguished and remembered, of roughly equal visual weight. The result was the well-known ESP cards often called Zener cards, although the final designs differed slightly from Zener’s. I like the thinness and texture of the cards too. If you wanna do sleights - these handle well. Your get-ready for a DL may need a little tweaking, but no big deal. Diaconis, Persi. (1978). Statistical Problems in ESP Research. Science New Series, Vol. 201, No. 4351. pp. 131–136. But they are also easily wiped down with disinfectant wipes which makes them perfect for anyone who wants to keep their props clean in these uncertain times, which is also a great sales tool for future bookings. Controlled - The spectator mixes up the cards, some face up, some face down. But without seeing them you know the number of face up cards and, astonishingly, can even name the symbols on them!