posted on October 16, 2001 01:15:15 AM new Text and graphics copyright Robert Todd Carroll, 2001.
"Zener cards are used by some parapsychologists to test psychic ability. There are five kinds of card: a star, three vertical wavy lines, a plus sign, a circle and a square. A deck of Zener cards consists of five of each symbol. The cards might be shuffled and the subject then tries to guess the order of the cards. Or a sender might look at a card and then try to telepathically communicate the perception to a receiver."
"Since there are twenty-five cards in the deck and five kinds of card, there is a one in five chance (or 20% chance) that any given card is on top of the deck or being viewed by a sender. A correct "guess" is called a "hit". Anything significantly higher than 20% hits in the long run would indicate that something other than chance is at work. In the short run, higher percentages are expected by chance. Thus, if you get nine out of twenty-five correct (36%), that would NOT be statistically significant. If you got 36% correct over 100 trials through the deck, that would be statistically significant and would indicate that something else besides chance is going on."
posted on October 16, 2001 07:38:34 AM new
hahaha, are you kidding? (I haven't played it -- just found it on the web and thought it would be kinda fun.) You sure you're not psychic, afterall? Here, I'll give you another test: Guess what I'm wearing...
posted on October 16, 2001 08:15:08 AM new
Did you see "Hearts in Atlantis"?
What this really might be is a psychokinesis test... unbeknownst to the person doing the "guessing," the results are generated *after* the choice is made, meaning either you see into the future or you MAKE the equipment generate your choice.
So, do really well on it and you might have one of them black helicopters land in your yard and whisk you away to a dark room where you're given a photo of bin Laden and told to concentrate on popping one of his arteries.
Or if it IS a simple telepathy test and you do well, the task might be to guess the GPS coordinates of his cave. Forget "remote viewing" design... "Oh I see rocks... and dirt... and mountains... yes, it's a cave..."
Lotta help that would be.
posted on October 16, 2001 08:25:38 AM new
"...you might have one of them black helicopters land in your yard and whisk you away to a dark room where you're given a photo of bin Laden and told to concentrate on popping one of his arteries."
You know, pyth00n, I wouldn't be a tall surprised to learn that we've got a bunch of junior g-men stationed in one of J Edgar's old closets, brainstorming to explode bin Laden's brain...
