Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purpose of the test, which was taken by 30 student guinea pigs, is to help determine if such a thing as clairvoyance actually exists, and if it has any correlation with personality...
Then for the main part of the experiment, the students were given a blank answer sheet of the same type used on the College Boards, and asked to fill it out to conform with a sheet secretly filled out by those giving the test...
This loyalty procedure cannot even effectively screen out potential traitors: an agent of a "Communist, Facist, or totalitarian" power would lie his way through the Navy's test without compunction. An honest man, however, might be caught up because of an incident in his past, and the country thus deprived of his services...
...large number of test-class required to achieve significant results, David Kahn, president of the society, hopes that a large number of people will offer their services. A favorable attitude toward ESP is in no way necessary...
...admits, however, that the office was put to a severe test earlier this week. "Someone wanted a student to iron shirts for four or five hours a week, but we couldn't find an experienced shirt-ironer in the entire College. We finally came up with an exceptionally ambitious student who was willing to learn, and at last reports he was doing fine...