Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years

A Critical Appraisal of the Research in Extra-Sensory Perception

Joseph Banks Rhine, J. Gaither Pratt

• Publisher: Borodino Books
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781789125207
• Edition: 0

Extrasensory Perception After Sixty Years: A Critical Appraisal of the Research in Extra-Sensory Perception, which was first published in 1940, represented the follow-up to parapsychologist Joseph Banks Rhine's 1934 book, Extrasensory Perception.
In Extrasensory Perception After Sixty Years: A Critical Appraisal of the Research in Extra-Sensory Perception, Rhine and his colleagues endeavor to present a complete review of the recent research in ESP and to include in their survey "everything that is of importance to know in deciding whether ESP occurs. and what it is like if it does occur."
Using three experiments that they believed demonstrated ESP, namely the Pearce-Pratt experiment, the Pratt-Woodruff experiment, and the Ownbey-Zirkle series, the book's first two parts deal with the question of whether ESP does occur. The formulation of the problem is presented, the mathematical and experimental methods used in attempting its solution, a survey of results obtained, and a consideration of the adequacy of some 35 hypotheses proposed as explanations alternative to ESP. Part II presents a survey of published criticisms and critical comments invited for this volume, whilst Part III considers the nature of ESP; the incidence of ESP ability; conditions that affect ESP performance; physical relations of ESP; ESP as a psychological process. The final part sketches "the outstanding problems that still remain unsolved, the methods under contemplation by which they may possibly be solved, and the further needs and prospects which confront investigators."
The present volume includes 21 appendices, a detailed glossary, as well as a list of 361 references.

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• PART I-THE QUESTION OF THE OCCURRENCE OF ESP
• PART II-THE CRITICISM AND THE EVIDENCE
• PART III-THE NATURE OF ESP
• PART IV-THE PRESENT SITUATION
• Appendix 1-APPLICATION OF STANDARD DEVIATION TO THE BINOMIAL SITUATION
• Appendix 2-THE CHI SQUARE GOODNESS OF FIT TEST
• Appendix 3-TEST OF VARIANCE
• Appendix 4-CHI SQUARE TEST ON GROUPED DATA
• Appendix 5-CONTINGENCY TEST OF INDEPENDENCE OF ATTRIBUTES
• Appendix 6-CORRELATION METHOD
• Appendix 7-EVALUATION OF A DIFFERENCE-PARAMETERS UNKNOWN
• Appendix 8-DEVIATION FREQUENCY ABOUT THEORETICAL MEAN-WISHART AND HIRSHFELD
• Appendix 9-MULTIPLE CALLING OF ONE DECK OF CARDS-STEVENS’ FORMULAS
• Appendix 10-A METHOD OF EVALUATING CLAIRVOYANT DRAWINGS
• Appendix 11-JOINT EVALUATION FOR VARIOUS PROBABILITIES OF SUCCESS ON EACH TRIAL
• Appendix 12-COMBINATION OF SERIES
• Appendix 13-EMPIRICAL CHANCE DISTRIBUTION
• Appendix 14-COVARIATION
• Appendix 15-A MEASURE OF SEQUENCES OF SIMILAR SCORING TENDENCY
• Appendix 16-PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE OF INDEPENDENT AND COMPLETE SERIES WITH CERTAIN LEVELS OF SIGNIFICANCE
• Appendix 17-TABLE 29
• Appendix 18-SOURCES OF ITEMS OF TABLE 6
• Appendix 19-PUBLISHED CRITICISM OF ESP RESEARCH
• Appendix 20-ORIGINAL RECORDS OF TELEPATHY SERIES
• Appendix 21-ESP QUOTIENT
• GLOSSARY
• REFERENCES
• REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER