20
Experimental Thought Transference
Thus, to take as an illustration a digit with which a small degree of success was obtained, 6 was named correctly only 14 times out of 37, but the 21 incorrect guesses are distributed pretty uniformly over all other digits, from 0 to 9.[1]
| Numbers Drawn. |
Numbers Guessed. |
Totals Drawn | ||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | "No impres- sions" | ||
| 1 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | .. | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 43 |
| 2 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 26 |
| 3 | 2 | 8 | 21 | 3 | 3 | .. | 3 | 1 | 3 | .. | 2 | 46 |
| 4 | 4 | .. | 6 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 46 |
| 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 46 |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 37 |
| 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 27 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 45 |
| 8 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 3 | .. | 5 | 20 | .. | 1 | 3 | 44 |
| 9 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 21 |
| 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | 8 | .. | 22 |
| Total's guess'd |
31 | 41 | 52 | 46 | 37 | 28 | 46 | 40 | 24 | 17 | 14 | 376 |
It is scarcely conceivable, if the successful results were actually due to hearing a faint whisper or other intimation under conditions of extreme diffi-
- ↑ Proceedings, S. P. R., vol. vi., p. 166.
