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Synchronicity: an Acausal Connecting Principle Free FREE SYNCHRONICITY: AN ACAUSAL CONNECTING PRINCIPLE PDF C. G. Jung | 160 pages | 19 Sep 1985 | Taylor & Francis Ltd | 9780415136495 | English | London, United Kingdom Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle by C.G. Jung Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Synchronicity by C. Jung. Hull Translator. Extracted from Volume 8. A parapsychological study of the meaningful coincidence of events, extrasensory perception, and similar phenomena. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published December 21st by Princeton University Press first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle ask other readers questions about Synchronicityplease sign up. Does the book contains the lovely personal story about how this interesting principle was discovered? Luis David Not, it does not. There are no discovery but only a postulation. A hard postulation that tries to Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle the scientistic method. Is this book approachable from the perspective of a non-psychologist? Or a new to Jung person? Emmanuel Ansah Might be a late reply Yes, although there are new words created Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle Jung himself that sound unknown at first but is really cleared out along the w …more Might be a late reply Yes, although there are new words created by Jung himself that sound unknown at first but is really cleared out along the way. See all 4 questions about Synchronicity…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. May 12, J. Keely rated it it was ok Shelves: philosophyreviewednon-fiction. The central theory of 'synchronicity' relies on an unfortunate combination of flawed research and misapplied statistics. Jung hems and haws but is never able to demonstrate that any acausal connection between events exists. The first problem is his reliance on research by Joseph Rhinewho coined Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle term 'parapsychology' to describe his studies. Throughout his career, Rhine's work was plagued with errors, and his ESP experiments were so poorly-designed as to be useless. To produce good results me The central theory of 'synchronicity' relies on an unfortunate combination of flawed research and misapplied statistics. To produce good results means setting up a good test. If there are flaws in the test, the results will be useless. When Rhine began to speak about the 'remarkable findings' in his Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, he gained interest and his papers were widely read. Sadly, it was immediately clear to professionals in the field that the results were unreliable. Through the course of his early experimentsRhine did not lay out a system by which the testing took place. He used a set of twenty-five Zener cards to test his subjects, but never specified any method by which the cards be randomized or presented. One of the most successful tests took place in a moving car. The expected outcomes were also underestimated, so that subjects reported as performing 'above chance' Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle in fact quite average. If the first card drawn is a star, the subject knows that only four star cards remain. The odds of guessing correctly increase for every card drawn. Beyond counting cards, it was later discovered that several of Rhine's assistants were helping certain subjects to cheatthat subjects were often allowed to handle the cards, and that the original cards were often thin enough that the symbols could be seen through them when backlit. After changing the tests to make cheating more difficult and getting rid of assistants caught cheating, Rhine never again produced any meaningful results. Sadly, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle revealed his prejudice when he refused to publish any experiment that did not support his theories. He then tried to excuse his lack of evidence by the so-called 'Decline Effect'which is just another misunderstanding of how statistics operate. Imagine you roll a large number of dice, then get rid of any that roll five or lower. You continue rolling, and continue keeping only those that roll high. Eventually, you're down to a handful of dice. If you keep rolling Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, they will average out. They were never super dice, after all, we just Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle to decide to keep the ones that rolled high--which some of the dice were bound to do, by sheer chance. That's not an anomaly, it's our own selection bias. It's like someone who doesn't like red skittles, and so only eats the other ones, and then is surprised when the bag has only red skittles remaining by the end. Rhine did the same thing: he tested large numbers of people, and kept only those who scored highly. He was selecting only the data that confirmed his theory. Then, when he retested them, they averaged out. This is not a magic 'decline effect', it is the natural correction of his own selection Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle averaging out over time. The fact that Jung did not recognize the flawed methodology throughout the experiments troubled me. A theorist needs to be able to recognize and avoid using flawed data, and the fact that Jung has so quickly embraced it suggests a lack of rigor in his own approach. Besides these contentious studies, Jung often relies on anecdotes--examples from his life, or from other people which suggest that coincidences are Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle some way important. For example, he remarks that one patient was telling of a dream she had about a beetle, at which point a beetle flew into the window of his office. Anecdotes are like metaphors: they are useful for illustrating an idea, but only a fool mistakes the illustration for the idea. One can 'burn the midnight oil' without actually having any oil at hand, and just because a man gets attacked by an escaped tiger in NYC, that is not evidence of an urban tiger epidemic. Beyond that, memory is an untrustworthy thing, and human beings assign more importance to events which confirm what they already believe, tending not to remember things that conflict with their beliefs. In this specific Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, coincidences like the kind he describes are not actually uncommon. While it is unlikely that a bug would fly in while a woman spoke about bugs, that is only one of many coincidences that might have happened that day. If a person has a thousand small moments in a day where a coincidence might happen, then statistically, each person will experience a one-in-a- thousand coincidence every day. Given enough time, the coincidence actually becomes more likely to occur than not to occur. It is unlikely that a roulette wheel will land on seven if you spin it once. If you spin it a thousand times, it would be miraculous if it didn't eventually land on seven. With a world population of 6. Unfortunately, Jung never overcomes Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle the flawed studies or the vague arguments which undermine his theory. He speaks back and forth at some length about various suppositions and possibilities, but never develops any convincing insight. A good piece of philosophy contains not only an interesting theory, but also presents the flaws and contradictions which that theory must overcome in order to be relevant. It is impossible to discuss the necessity of an idea without first dealing with the problems amassed against it. Only if its power and accuracy prove greater than these problems can the idea truly emerge as a workable concept. Jung never manages to cross this important threshold. It is clear that he has passion, and that there is a great desire within him to explore and understand, but this is simply not enough. He tells us that there have been many ideas throughout history which were considered unpalatable, which were rejected outright, and only accepted as truth later. He reminds us that it is vital to Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle pushing the boundary--yet again he forgets statistics--for every great idea that was rejected for being before its time, there are ten or a hundred ideas which ended up being flat out wrong. The lesson of history is that the odds are against the radical idea. We might think of great successes like Kepler or Newton, who changed our conception of the world with radical notions--but both men also had passionate ideas which they worked Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle their whole lives, and which turned out to be baseless--for Kepler, the notion that the orbits of the planets were based on the platonic solids, and Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle Newton the study of alchemy. 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