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Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8 LN734-85 of an indefinite size and of indefinite contents. (For example to select one of the Chinese characters at random.) The other method is to select at random the test object from a pool of definite size and contents. (This would be like randomly selecting from a specified 100 Chinese characters.) Obviously, the probability of guessing correctly would be less under the first model. However, the second model makes it easier to use a fixed quantity, which makes it easier to do quantitative analysis of the results of the experiment. Scientific Nature of Test Materials When manufacturing the test materials, in addition to paying attention to the strictness of the test materials, some special characteristics inherent in psychic vision must also be considered. Only when the test materials are appropriatel;y strict and are suitable for the psychic level and characteristics of the subject being tested may the test materials be considered to be scientific test materials. This is test materials of a scientific nature. Therefore, the scientific nature of test materials includes two diffferent aspects. These two aspects are the strictness and the acceptability. As for | the strictness of the test material, this has been discussed in relative detail before. Here, we would like to briefly describe acceptability of test material. Each human ability has its own special rules and sphere of action. For example, normal sight has a limited power of resolution and light spectrum parameters of of. responsiveness. It can only react to objects within definite parameters. Psychic vision is no exception to this. From known results we can see that psychic vision has a different degree of penetration. It _also has the power 1 to distinguish between different layers and to unfold, which normal vision does not. There is a greater divergence among individuals in the power of resolution in psychic vision than there is in normal sight. The rate of error is much higher | in psychic vision. Response time is also longer. Inversion is also also apt to occur (for example the reading of 103 as 301 or the inverting of similar Chinesé characters). Psychic vision can also easily lead to exhaustion. Since the objects of our research are human beings, and since the laws geverning psychic vision are not yet clearly understood, when designing experiments we must not rely on subjective imagination, or divorce ourselves from objective reality. Otherwise, the test material we make up will not be scientific. For example, some people use toys of several geometric figures as test objects, and have the subject of the test distinguish the sequential arrangement in space of these toys. Then they use the accuracy of the subject being tested in sequential arrangement of these shapes as the only standard of judging the results of this test. This test material was designed in accordance with the laws of normal sight. It obviously did not take into account the inversion effect of psychic vision. Therefore, the design of this test could hardly be called scientific. (Unless, of course, it were used scientifically to research the inversion/transpostion effect.) Therefore, the design and manufacture of test materials is very difficult work. Only with respect to - objectivity, with multiple effects, with repeated practice, can we design test materials which are both strict and scientific. -5]- Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8