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Critics (n=58) Experts (n=85)
X SD %X SD %
claims contact with a 35,000-year-
old wise man.
Practices Rated Harmful by Critics
Transcendental Meditation offers a
noncredit course that includes
chanting, meditation, and levitation
Ato improve your grades.”
1.51 0.71 95** 3.21 1.09 24
A community college student
regularly consults a psychic, Jean,
whose fee is $20. She guides and
advises him through past-life
regression, hypnosis, predictions,
and warnings.
1.51 0.57 97** 2.78 0.99 33
Woman invites college students to
attend her group where she
promises to channel ascended
masters.
1.60 0.78 84** 2.92 0.93 24
Jehovah‟s Witnesses stage an
aggressive recruitment drive in
area schools.
1.60 0.62 93 1.92 0.91 72
A high school group watches a
rented videotape about a South
American entity, Mafu. Mafu sends
messages through his channeler
(Mrs. R) such as “Love yourself.
You are God.”
1.70 0.78 84** 2.99 1.09 29
Social worker used Tarot reading to
reach 15-year-old truants as part
of an accredited high school
dropout program.
1.84 0.86 89** 3.21 1.10 20
Parents find Dungeons &Dragons,
occult manuals, and an occult curio
catalogue in room of sons, ages 12
and 16.
1.86 9.77 77** 2.39 0.34 52
High school studies teacher offers
course in “Global Mind Change.” He
asserts, “Leading scientific thought
now recognizes that along with
objective data, our subjective
religious and spiritual insights are
also a valid description of reality.”
1.89 0.85 86** 3.16 1.16 15
Teachers and parents assist
children in using extrasensory
perception creatively.
1.91 0.89 84** 3.76 1.07 13
Foster son, 16, spends 3 hours
every day playing Dungeons &
Dragons.
1.91 0.71 79** 2.28 0.80 58
High school English teacher
introduces self-hypnotic procedures
in her classes to increase pupils‟
1.93 0.84 79** 3.47 1.03 15
Critics (n=58) Experts (n=85)
X SD %X SD %
claims contact with a 35,000-year-
old wise man.
Practices Rated Harmful by Critics
Transcendental Meditation offers a
noncredit course that includes
chanting, meditation, and levitation
Ato improve your grades.”
1.51 0.71 95** 3.21 1.09 24
A community college student
regularly consults a psychic, Jean,
whose fee is $20. She guides and
advises him through past-life
regression, hypnosis, predictions,
and warnings.
1.51 0.57 97** 2.78 0.99 33
Woman invites college students to
attend her group where she
promises to channel ascended
masters.
1.60 0.78 84** 2.92 0.93 24
Jehovah‟s Witnesses stage an
aggressive recruitment drive in
area schools.
1.60 0.62 93 1.92 0.91 72
A high school group watches a
rented videotape about a South
American entity, Mafu. Mafu sends
messages through his channeler
(Mrs. R) such as “Love yourself.
You are God.”
1.70 0.78 84** 2.99 1.09 29
Social worker used Tarot reading to
reach 15-year-old truants as part
of an accredited high school
dropout program.
1.84 0.86 89** 3.21 1.10 20
Parents find Dungeons &Dragons,
occult manuals, and an occult curio
catalogue in room of sons, ages 12
and 16.
1.86 9.77 77** 2.39 0.34 52
High school studies teacher offers
course in “Global Mind Change.” He
asserts, “Leading scientific thought
now recognizes that along with
objective data, our subjective
religious and spiritual insights are
also a valid description of reality.”
1.89 0.85 86** 3.16 1.16 15
Teachers and parents assist
children in using extrasensory
perception creatively.
1.91 0.89 84** 3.76 1.07 13
Foster son, 16, spends 3 hours
every day playing Dungeons &
Dragons.
1.91 0.71 79** 2.28 0.80 58
High school English teacher
introduces self-hypnotic procedures
in her classes to increase pupils‟
1.93 0.84 79** 3.47 1.03 15
