Abstract

A tabulation was made of how many times each hexagram (a 64-line structure for an answer to a question) came up in a personal collection gathered over a period of 9 yrs\' consecutive use of the I Ching, in the hope of demonstrating deviation from chance according to a number of measures. A meta-hexagram was derived for 1st hexagrams but the chi-square goodness-of-fit test did not yield significant deviations from chance. The same outcome was found for the 2nd hexagram. The number of static hexagrams (no changing lines, giving a single unchanging hexagram) was very close to the theoretical percentage. Mean number of changing lines did not differ significantly from MCE. There were no signs of psi in these ways of looking at the hexagrams.