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Article: Does precognition foresee the future? Series 4: a postal replication.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Parapsychology
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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A methodological issue early on in precognition research has been to devise a procedure to rule out real-time alternatives in experimental tests for precognition. Even in the very early tests for precognition, it was soon understood that good results in tests could be explained through real-time psi. Thus, the initial experiments by Rhine (1938), in which participants tried to guess the order in which the ESP cards in a deck would be after the pack had been shuffled, could be interpreted as successful due to a "psychic shuffle" performed by the person shuffling the deck. That is, the shuffler may shuffle the cards so that they conform to the pre-existing guesses rather ...