Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathyPodmore, Frank
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Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy
Podmore, Frank
Apparitions; Telepathy
As he looked one of them disappeared, and he turned the paper over
to look for it on the other side; then looked back at the place
where he saw it before and said, "That's funny! while I was looking
for that the other one's gone." When looking under the paper he
noticed some scribbling on the sheet below and said, "Has that
writing anything to do with it?" He seemed puzzled by the figures,
which were apparently genuine externalised hallucinations. He could
not make out why they came, nor why they disappeared.
37 P. (after long gazing): "37." S.: "Is that what you
see?" P.: "It's gone. I'm pretty sure I saw
37."
Mr. Smith then looked at the 37 again, and we told P. to watch
whether it came back, but after a little while he said he thought
he saw 29.
Similar trials were made with three other subjects, Miss B., T., and W.
In all 644 trials were made with the agent in the same room with the
percipient, of which 131 were successful, that is, both digits were
given correctly, though in 14 out of the 131 cases in reverse order.
The chance of success was of course 1 in 81, and the most probable
number of complete successes was therefore 8. 218 trials were also made
with Mr. Smith in a different room from the percipient, but of these
only 9 succeeded, one having its digits reversed; 8 of these successes,
however, occurred in the course of 139 trials with P., whilst 79
trials with T. yielded only one success. (_Proc. S.P.R._, vol. vi. pp.
123-170.)
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