Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14

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rolling your winning depend pretty
. much your ability to call your shots If you're
Of those crack African golfers" who turn
PAIR OF tours by merely shouting mere comes an eghter
Decatur" you've been blessed with what these
cali extra sensoTy perception"
such the odds in your better than those
the person lacks this prophetic vision At least
is what the research experts Duke University
claim And they ought to know-for they have been
shooting craps scientifically, if you pease) for the last
six years.
end the worlds longest crap game 1t back in
1856 that investigators under the directions of Professor
J. b. Rhine and DIR. J. L. Woodruff began rolling the
bones find whether people really call
their shots with regularity that could not reasonably be
ascrbed to chance,
The Duke faculty were interested
such Their use of the galoping dominocs was only
part Of series of interesting experiments that they have
been conducting to determine just where the element
begnsand ends The results of their dice tests
reported in the Journal of Parapsychoogy tend to
their theory of precognon-tha people have the
knack Of knowing what going to happen in the future
Putting technical Technology aside, it has been the
Of the Duke researchers to find out if there really
s something behind lunches" it their
clusion that there is. They go far to say
that born with faculty helps binders
good fortune possible astonishing
sreaks of winning or losing Good and bad luck they
conclude not just series of accidents and coinc
dences that could happen to just well to
another Instead the tests TO indicate that the
lucky guy is the who has that touch of f. S. p.
sensory PERCEPTION whether he knows it not
you've got this E. S. p, and have a bunch that
you're going to toss winning combination the chances
of your doing your favor than you merely
slightest feeling
going TO turn up
And how do the scientists know that? Well first of
ALL they got hold of person with plenty of e. S. p
J. Lnzmayer who at the beginning of the tests
member Of the secretarial staff of Dukes parapsy-
chology laboratory.
They had Lnzmayer roll dice thousands of times
Every time he made toss he would make prediction.
This prediction and the results of every throw
corded Then they worked out ratio as to how many
times person ought to be able to guess" the results
correctly This figure compared with Linzmayer's
ability TO call en- ON one series of throws for example
chance guessing should have yielded 1882 correct
guesses But Linzmayer called the turn correctly 1926
tmesor % above what expected The odds against
his doing this $50 TO
Others the laboratory joined in the crap shooting,
but Lnzmayer proved TO be the bone setter-which
probably makes lot Of Broadway tinhorns wonder why
the professors keep teaching school they
be down their knees getting shoes for baby"
But be that may. the confessed their
official Journal Parapsychoogy they were lightly
competing with another for small stakes"
Skepucs might be tempted to point out that Linz
mayors consistent winnings the result of messing
with the dice with little English" that
weighted The scientists thought OF that, All
the losses were made with regulation dice box and an
electucaly-drven revolving cage All Lnzmayer had
figures showed the dice couldn't possibly loaded
The professors thought that perhaps they launched
the tests the middle of a lucky streak because
language Of African golfers. Linzmayer and the
scientists hot But lucky streak lasts six years
From the educators work with cards dice.
would that If you person with f. S, p. you'd
b" doing the smartest thing by playing lunches
JIst,as you've got feeling they will
Thus IT would that much Of the gamblers super
sttion' turns not TO be superstition ALL an
uncanny ability 20 know just which way Lady Luck
going 20 jump The evidence would 10 indicate that
bad gessers followed by jinx hoodoo the
learned gentlemen call it, negative
depressing factor"
not the only university conducting experiments
extra sensory perception. Of other schools
throughout the country making similar All
scientists admit their work merely exploratory
they've got long way before they solve the mystery
precogniton these crap-shootng professors
no they knOW
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