Zener Cards

The Zener cards are a deck of 25 cards (5 symbols × 5 copies) used by parapsychologist J.B. Rhine at Duke University in the 1930s to test alleged extrasensory perception abilities. Designed by psychologist Karl Zener: circle, plus, waves, square, star.

Statistical baseline

With 5 symbols, the expected probability of random hits is 1/5 = 20%. A series of 25 cards has expected mean of 5 correct guesses.

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