Extra-Sensory Perception
The catalogue record for this book sets out a work in three parts, and the sequence of its chapters shows the case it is trying to build. J B Rhine opens with a general introduction that clarifies the problem, sets out the historical background to it, and explains the mathematics of probability he uses in evaluating results, so that the argument rests on anti-chance values rather than on anecdote. The second part reports experimental results: a general survey, earlier and minor experiments, then chapters given over to individual subjects, among them A J Linzmayer, Charles E Stuart and Hubert E Pearce, followed by five other major subjects. The third part is explanation and discussion. Here the book works through the elimination of negative hypotheses, the physical conditions under which extra-sensory perception is said to function, the physiological conditions affecting it, the psychological conditions and bearings of the results, the place of the findings within general parapsychology, and some general biological considerations. It closes with a summary, suggestions for those who repeat the experiments, and a table of higher anti-chance values.
Written from the library catalogue record for the Boston edition at the Internet Archive.
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