Abstract

Subjects were tested for their ability to identify randomly selected targets consisting of ESP symbols recorded in one of 5 possible positions. Successes were scored in terms of hits on both the symbol and the position. A preliminary experiment revealed that subjects who were already familiar with the ESP symbols scored below chance-expectation on them but positively on position. To find out whether this difference was due to the novelty of trying for position, further tests were run with naieve subjects. One group was tried first on symbols alone and another group on position alone. The symbol group obtained a significant negative deviation (P = .0002). Both groups in tests for symbol and position combined gave positive deviations on position hits and negative scores on ESP symbols, though the difference was not significant.