Abstract

Three experimenters each performed a test of clairvoyance with a different group of 20 Ss. Each S attempted to call the most frequent card (MFC) in each of 100 sets of 5 cards, the sets being removed successively from the top of a randomly arranged, open ESP deck. While the combined results of the 3 experiments were significant, the deviation was independently significant only in the results from 1 experimenter, which indicated that the ESP of the 5 cards was diametric and that the success in identifying the MFC carried directly with the difference between its frequency and the frequency of the next MFC in the set. The cards in the MFC hits had a higher proportional frequency in the 2 terminal positions of the 5-card set than in the inner 3. Results indicate that the ESP process took place by an act of diametric paranormal perception of the 5 cards, followed by normal psychophysiological determination of which of the cards was the most frequent. (4 ref)