In Edgar Mitchell's telepathy experiment in space, the belowaverage trials of his receivers were
a. acknowledged as "failures" and evidence that psi abilities do not exist.
b. reinterpreted as "successes" and represented intentional "psi missing."
c. found to be caused by the vacuum of space inhibiting psi abilities.
d. classified as a rare run of luck.
ANSWER: b
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