Who else wants more “smarty pants” psychic power facts and research? Lots of the people who have been reading our stuff, and emailing and commenting below, have been asking for more “serious” psychic research to PROVE any of this is really real, right?
Well….your wish is our continuous command! here is another interesting article taken out of the archives, talking about some of the results achieved not only from the famed “Rhine” experiments, but also some of the follow up stuff as well.
The Pearce-Pratt Distance Series ESP TestsFrom 1933 through 1934, J.B. Rhine, an assistant professor in the Psychology Department at Duke University, conducted a series of ESP tests concerning a Duke student, Hubert E. Pearce Jr., who had come forward and told J.B. Rhine that he believed he’d inherited his mother’s psychic abilities.
With the help of J.G. Pratt, a psychology graduate student acting as the assistant, J.B. Rhine ran a series of ESP card tests on Hubert Pearce. In the tests, Pratt was unaware of the card sequences, establishing what scientists call a “double-blind”, meaning that neither the test subject nor the scientist performing the experiment know the correct answers.J.B. Rhine ran a series of psychic power tests with various distances between the cards, held by Pratt, and the psychic, Pearce.
They conducted the first series at 100 yards apart, the second series at 250 yards, and then the final two series at 100 yards apart again. In 1936, J.B. Rhine published an article in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology outlining the results of his research.Results: The results of this early parapsychology research was nowhere near conclusive. However, the results were statistically shocking. The experiments totaled 1850 trials. A statistical calculation of the probability that a person could correctly guess the right card by chance is 20% – 370 correct hits out of the 1850 trials. Hubert Pearce consistently guessed 558 correct hits, a resulting 30% success rate that was 188 successful hits above the expected results from simple chance.
These results have been debated during the centuries since, and the significance of the statistical variation remains in question even today.[edit]Princeton ESP Psychic Tests in 2000Many years later, in 2000, the Journal of Scientific Exploration published a fascinating paper by Dr. Robert Jahn of Princeton University. The paper was titled Contributions to Variance in REG Experiments, and it outlined the results of a twelve-year study conducted by Dr. Jahn and three of his fellow researchers.This particular study was conducted from 1979 through 1991, running almost perfectly parallel to the government’s ongoing ESP research at the same time.