ABSTRACT
Hubert E. Pearce, the divinity student, had been acting as a subject in ESP experiments for more than a year before he took part in the Pearce-J. G. Pratt experiment, or Campus Distance Series as it is also known, which was started in August 1933 and completed in March 1934. If Pearce had chosen to cheat, he knew to the second—from the time he was supposed to start his recording to the time when he was supposed to make his last guess—what Pratt was doing. From Pratt and J. B. Rhine's statement, the reader might assume that they had carefully considered every conceivable explanation other than a trick involving all three participants in the experiment. In the Pearce-Pratt experiment the distance of 100 yards was fixed from the start, although it was, "possibly, suggested by Pearce.".
