Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17

his feat having been due to pure luck or chance
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Meanwhile. in England, Whately Carngton, of Cam
bridge University, wondered whether teepathy expert
could not deal with something more interesting
than the endless succession of symbols, cards and
numbers He invented his now-famouS draw what
I'm thinking about experiment. 1t worked this way:
Carington tipped open his dictionary at random and
made sketch Of whatever drawable object at the
top of the page At agreedupon hour, he went into
his study and pinned up the drawing on the wall Many
miles away dozen receivers looked at their Watches
drew the first pcturemaee that came into their minds
and mailed their sketches to Carington.
Each trial. of course brought in number OF sketches
of lamps, tables. dogs cats. These images under
standaby popped into the receivers mind because they
were present in his household But on the occasions
when Caringtons object drawn at random from the
dictionary was cat the number of cat responses shot
up significantly. Again, when he was sending" the
image of zebra, the mail not only brought in many
recognizable zebras, but striped tigers and sheets Of
paper simply covered with a multitude Of stripes.
Carington's experiment was successfully repeated by
IS independent researchers and hits frequent
and accurate that the total result Of the experiment
exceeded pure chance by odds Of a million to one.
The Mcconnell Experiment.: Is there any truth to the
stories Of gamblers lucky Streaks? Recent research
points that way. Some people actually seem at times
be able control the fall Of dice the destiny Of
shufied playing card This exrasensory ability is called
psychokineSis c'PK" for short). II has long been
believed by researchers in the field but laboratory proof
was lacking until Professor Robert Mcconnell of the
University Of Pittsburgh conducted a now famous
series of experiments. Professor Mcconnell, as cooy
balanced and impartial physicist you are likely to
find spent years tumbng dice in sealed, motor-drven
cage. As the dice fall the subject chosen for the
experiment wills" them to fall a certain way.
Taking part in the Mcconnell experiment were
total of 1913 persons who, altogether, made 10000
dice casts When they finished they found that they
had produced no greater lesser = number of hits
than would be expected under chance conditions. Bur
when Me record of HRS and misses was ch0rfed on a
graph in daily sequence, Professor Mcconnell noticed
very curious thing. Instead Of forming the expected,
irregular upanddown pattern of chance behavior the
hits and misses grouped in consistent, orderly
cumps! II was as though the experimenters' winning
streaks were turned on and off by some unseen but
weIl-regulated clock. Or though the subject was
able to exert his will to win until he tired then,
after he had rested, he was able to win again!
Mechanically, the Mcconnell group. who oper-
ated under stringent testing conditions had only one
chance in 500 produce their results by pure chance
You can conclude that the entire theory Of chance,
which has stood up for than 800 years, is all
wrong. Or you can decide that something more than
chance - in short, PIX ~ was at work!