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Article: A meta-analysis of forced-choice experiments comparing clairvoyance and precognition.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Parapsychology
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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Parapsychologists have long been interested in the question of whether clairvoyance and precognition are really different phenomena (e.g., Morris, 1982). It has been suggested that apparent precognition might actually consist of a person sampling the present environment via real-time ESP and extrapolating from the information to make an informed prediction about future events (see, e.g., Mundle, 1978). If this hypothesis is correct, then clairvoyance studies would be expected to result in higher effect sizes than precognition studies because of the extra calculational step involved in the latter type of ESP task. Conversely, it has been proposed that what appears to be a ...