Abstract

IN his communication in Nature of November 7, p. 1515, Mr. C. E. M. Hansel cites certain results from the Shackleton experiments in precognitive telepathy which he claims support his theory that the guessers made ‘card substitutions’ on prearranged positions on the scoring sheets. In a forthcoming paper in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, I have shown on quite other grounds how extremely improbable it is that such a method was used. I cannot accept Mr. Hansel's arguments based on the 1,139 (+ 2) trials carried out at rapid rate, because, as I shall show, he makes an unwarranted assumption.

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