Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
It is, of course, not practicable to reproduce their 130 drawings in
this Bulletin. But they are to be mounted, the ten for each original
drawing on a separate sheet together with a copy of the Sinclair
original and reproduction, and the 13 sheets will be preserved by the
Boston Society for Psychic Research as a permanent exhibit which any
visitor may inspect and judge for himself.
As has been seen, we classified the Sinclair reproductions of this
series as Successes, Partial Successes, Suggestive and Failures. This is
a rough method, and others might increase or decrease the number
assigned to any of these classes, except the last. There can be no
question that there is but one entire failure. But however faulty our
standard of rating, it is the same standard which is applied to the
drawings of the ten ladies.
Not only did I use the utmost care in rating the drawings of the ten
ladies, but I asked my secretary, Miss Hoffmann, a lady of education and
keen intelligence, to do the same. Her rating of the guessing sets was
as absolutely independent of mine as mine was independent of hers.
Our mutually independent estimates were surprisingly alike. According to
both, there were among the 130 trials (by 10 women) not a single
Success, only 1 (Miss H) or 2 (W. F. P.) deserving to be entitled to
Partial Success, 7 Suggestive, 5 Slightly Suggestive and 116 (W. F. P.)
or 117 (Miss H) Failure. Compare with the Sinclair set, 3 Success, 5
Partial Success, 4 Suggestive, 1 Failure, out of a total of but 13.
Before the foregoing judging was done, I had Miss Hoffman guess the
whole set, twice a day, until another 10 sets were produced, based upon
the same Sinclair series. Our wholly independent estimates of the total
results of these additional 130 experiments in guessing proved again to
be surprisingly alike. Neither found a single Success, 1 (W. F. P.) or
no (Miss H) reproduction deserved to be called a Partial Success, 5 (W.
F. P.) or 7 (Miss H) were rated Suggestive, 8 (W. F. P.) or 7 (Miss H)
as Slightly Suggestive and 116 as Failures.
We will now tabulate the two groups (the sets of the 10 ladies and Miss
H’s 10 sets), taken together (260 experiments in guessing).
_W. F. P.’s Estimate_ _Miss H’s Estimate_
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S. 0 S. 0
P. S. 3 P. S. 1
Sug. 12 Sug. 14
S. Sug. 13 S. Sug. 12
F. 232 F. 233
If we calculate the averages for the 20 sets of experiments, we can more
directly compare with the Sinclair results.
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