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...Rhine had more PK, he might be able to compel others to think as he does. Or if he had more precognition, he might not be in the fix that he says...
...golden ball, so his world of the mind is full of futuristic furnishings. There is the overall term ESP (for extrasensory perception) for what used to be called clairvoyance and telepathy. This. says - Rhine, might be the explanation for the case of the California cat. Then there is PK (psychokinesis), for the alleged power to influence events by nonphysical means-e.g., a crapshooter "willing" the fall of the dice. And there is precognition, or ability to foretell events...
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...
...About 15 operators "gifted with PK" accounted for the group's good score; the rest got chance results or worse...