Each Sunday, in 1937, folks all throughout American tune in to a wierd broadcast. The Zenith Basis is making an attempt an formidable parapsychology experiment to check whether or not telepathy is actual. The outcomes are extraordinary: listeners rating much better than probability can clarify. May thoughts studying actually be doable?
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Additional Studying
On the Zenith Basis experiments
Goodfellow, L. D. (1938, reprinted 1992). A psychological interpretation of the outcomes of the Zenith Radio experiments in telepathy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Common, 121(2), 130–144. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.121.2.130
William Poundstone Rock Breaks Scissors (within the UK, Methods to Predict the Unpredictable)
Stacy Horn “ESP Video games and Educational Politics”
Royal Gazette and Colonist Day by day, Thursday October 7 1937
On Louisa and JB Rhine, and ESP Playing cards
Seymour Mauskopf and Michael McVaugh The Elusive Science (1980)
Feather, S. R. and Ensrud, B. (2018). Joseph Banks Rhine. Psi Encyclopedia. Final up to date: 30 April 2026.
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie “How One Man Used a Deck of Playing cards to Make Parapsychology a Science” Atlas Obscura 27 December 2016
Rhine, J. B. & Rhine, L. E. (1927). One night’s commentary on the Margery mediumship. The Journal of Irregular and Social Psychology, 21 (4), 401-421
“Doyle Declares Margery Real” New York Occasions 5 March 1927
Massimo Polidoro “A Telepathy Investigation” Skeptical Inquirer Sep/Oct 2018
