Administering Psychic Tests
I am sure we are all pretty familiar with the standard psychic test that is given in random laboratories and studies worldwide. The test I am referring to is the “card” test where a deck of cards with symbols (typically a star, wavy lines, square, triangle, circle) is used to test the psychic abilities of subjects. The basic theory is that if a person is truly psychic they will be able to “guess” what card a person is holding up without being able to see the card over 50% of the time. While there has never been a documented case that proves someone psychic using this test, it never fails to be the one everyone wants to administer. It does make sense because it is a simple test that is easily controlled, so I decided to take it.
I will start off by saying that this psychic ability test that was administered to me was in no way scientifically endorsed or administered by a professional. I sat with my back to my sisters, who had the cards, and she would raise a card and ask me to guess which one it was. We repeated the steps 100 times and out of 100 I got 43 correct, less than half correct. Now this did not bum me out because I do not claim to have the ability to just see what the next card is going to be. There are so many different psychic abilities and I knew that was not mine, so we tried another psychic test and this one was much more interesting.
We took five people who were volunteers and that I have never met before and placed them in a room separate from mine and I sat with my back to the wall and one by one my sister would send one of the five people into my room without any verbal communication. They were to come to the doorway of my room without saying anything or clearing their throat or doing anything that would give away their height, gender, etc. They were instructed to stand there until I made a declaration then move away without saying anything. I did not know if I guessed correctly until the experiment was finished. We repeated the process 1oo times and I guessed the person correctly 89 times.
I believe this is because my psychic abilities lie with me being empathetic and picking up on individual energies. I should note that the 11 times I guessed wrong were in the first 25 guesses and I guessed correctly 75 times in a row. I believe this is because I began to get acquainted with each individual energy and could recognize them time and again. This was by far a controlled experiment, but we did control it as much as possible.
My point is this: that psychic tests should be varied and cater to different abilities then maybe we could find some “proof” for psychic abilities.
