Believe it or not.Believe it or not People express a "surprising degree" of credence in psychic and supernatural phenomena, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a random, nationwide telephone poll of 1,236 U.S. adults conducted last June. Although these beliefs often conflict with traditional religious views, they emerge among deeply religious folk almost as often as among the nonreligious, report George H. Gallup Jr. and Frank Newport of the Gallup Organization in Princeton, N.J. The poll results, published in the winter 1991 SKEPTICAL INQUIRER The Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly, American magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), formerly the "Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal" or "CSICOP". , include the following: One in four people believe in ghosts, one in six cite communications with someone deceased, one in four say they have communicated "telepathically" with another person, one in 10 claim to have seen or been in the presence of a ghost, one in seven say they have seen a UFO UFO: see unidentified flying objects. (United Functions and Objects) A programming language developed by John Sargeant at Manchester University, U.K. , one in four believe in astrology and about half believe in extrasensory perception extrasensory perception: see parapsychology. extrasensory perception (ESP) Perception that involves awareness of information about something (such as a person or event) not gained through the senses and not deducible from previous experience. . |
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