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Article: TESTING CLAIRVOYANCE AND PRECOGNITION BY MANIPULATING PROBABILITIES: A CONCEPTUAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Parapsychology
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
- Author:
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ABSTRACT: This paper reviews six clairvoyance experiments and two precognition ones. In essence, all eight studies use an unbalanced deck of some kind in which one or more items in the deck (will) appear more frequently than others. Traditionally, results from the six clairvoyance experiments have been thought to support each other; the current assessment, however, reveals that the findings are not as complementary as might first be imagined. Although all authors believe that psi operates globally in their experiments by scanning the whole target set, at least four different models are offered to explain how global psi might work. None of these models can explain all the ...