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    aesthetic criteria, subjects consistently selected certain
    instances and avoided other ones; whereas one would expect
    each Instance of a Particular element to be chosen about an
    equal number of times - specifically 106116, or 6.625 times-
    there were Instances which had been chosen just once or
    twice, and others chosen 15 or even 20 times!.
    BY comparison to the conflicts induced by the scanning task,
    the timing task was effortless and entertaining. Given that
    all subjects went through both conditions, it is Possible
    that the significant t1ming-task result simply. reflects a
    Preferential effect: this condition may have fared better
    because subjects perceived it as less frustrating. Alter-
    natively, insofar as subjects had little control over their
    selections during the tlmlng-task, and just had to press the
    button when they felt the time was "right", they were less
    Prone to counter-productive Psychological sets (e.g., trying
    too hard) and more apt to adopt a Passive, "goal -oriented"
    approach. The study's results may be seen as analogous to
    those of RNG-PK studies suggesting the superiority of goal-
    oriented over PCOCesS-orlented strategies (Morris, Nanko and
    PhIlilPs, 1979; Levi, 1979), or of hidden RNG-PK tasks over
    explicit ones <Berger, 1988; PRL,1984; Varvoglis, 1989).
    It should be noted, though, that the specific distribution
    of scores in the timing task does not lend Itself to any
    Simple Interpretations . It is not clear why hitting should
    manifest at a level at which it is least rewarding, and at
    which Psi-information Is least useful. Similarly, it is not
    clear why the trend toward missIng (most apparent in the
    overall results) should manifest at the pair-level, at which
    Psi-Informatlon was quite Precise, and a hit, presumably,
    quite rewarding.
    CONCLUSION
    It Is obvious that this study's results, though Significant,
    are not 'Particularly encouraging for, psychic criminology
    applications. The overall patterning of experimental scores
    seems to have been due to a combination of hitting and
    missing, with the most conspicuous hitting occurring at too
    low an informational level to be especially useful.
    On the other hand, It should be stressed that the task was
    as removed from real psychic criminology as could be -
    involving repeated trials, "normal" subjects, and fictional
    faces, rather than a single trial by a "psychic" attempting
    to describe a dangerous criminal . Also, Insofar as the
    procedures encourag&d Subjects to focus upon facial-features
    rather than upon the face as a whole, our tasks may have
    been simply too elementaristlc to fairly assess the utility
    of faces as Psi targets.
    Be that as It may, we are looking to shift our approach with
    Visages. Leaving aside psychic criminology, for now, we are
    Preparing to recast the program as a PK-orle 0~ 1§02-3
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          block subjects/ receptivity to psi infor 'mation would render
          them effective PK agents. Next t-Ime, -rather than asking
          participants to fight their- feelings and preferences and
          response biasesp were going to tell them to go for it, and
          (try to) have It their way ...
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