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Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8 LN734-85 ‘the test materials directly from any third party's known sensory channels (such as prompting, etc.). - 1 3. Any logical thought process or guessing on the part of the person being tested which could affect the reliability of the test material must be piiminated. These are the special requirements for experiments in psychic vision research. Only if it meets the general requirements for experiments and if it meets the special reliability requirements stated above, will an experiment be considered reliable. Methods to Guarantee Reliability in Experiments experiment, the following methods should he adopted: Ste Blocking Method: This is the cutting off of any connection between the test / material and any normal known sensory channel. Examples of this are the / requirements for "uniqueness", "opaqueness", "“irreversability", and "double f plind method", These are all methods which meet this requirement for ' "blockage". ; 2 "Elimination" Methods: Generally, when test items.are selected from a large pool, it is required that the results of the experiment be statistically significant, in order to eliminate the possibility of the person being tested from using logical means or guessing responses to the test materials. ope AO te sae t \ 2 "Monitoring" Methods: These include monitoring by people present and instrument monitoring. ‘ Obviously, the three methods above are complementary, and all are necessary. There are many scientific means by which this may be done. For example, with no means of monitoring, the "blocking" method is ineffective. Under conditions of strict monitoring (for example, videotaping then even without several of the blockage methods (such as irreversible sealing, etc.) the experiment can still meet the reliability requirements. ij It should be pointed out that the abilities and special characteristics of . j Subjects being tested are different. Therefore, the design and method of the ‘ experiments should also be different. This touches upon the question of whether or not an experiment is designed scientifically. (1). For example, some subjects can recognize test material that. has been sealed up, and others can only recognize material that has not been sealed. Chen Shou-Liang (3) terms the former as second degree physics, and the latter as first degree psychics. Obviously, first degree psychics can only use test material with a relatively loose degree of strictness. However, this shortcoming can be made up for by - using stricter monitoring, so the experiment may be reliable. We therefore believe, that the reliability of an experiment, the level of ability of the subject, the strictness of control over the test materials, and -48- Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8