Word: pk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine's PK crap-shooting [TIME, Aug. 19] has made more than a few of the veteran crapshooters here smile...
Psychokinesis (no doubt his trade name for a hunch) is a-little inane, a great deal beyond ordinary, garden variety crapshooting. Miss Dale's figures showing 171 hits better than pure chance out of 31,104 rolls, rather than proving PK, could just as well be 171 hits worse than pure chance...
...psychic games which Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine introduced to science-Extra-Sensory Perception (card-guessing) and Psychokinesis (crap-shooting)-psychologists have found crapshooting more fun. Rhine's PK ("mind over matter") theory, that man can control the fall of dice by will power (TIME, July 26, 1943), is now being tested on both sides of the Atlantic...
...About 15 operators "gifted with PK" accounted for the group's good score; the rest got chance results or worse...
...last nine years Rhine has kept a small group of followers shooting craps to prove "the dominance of mind over matter." Convinced that mind can at least dominate dice, he has given his theory a scientific name, PK (psychokinesis), and published his evidence in the Journal of Parapsychology, a Rhine house organ for E.S.P...