Persinger M A
Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada.
Psychol Rep. 2001 Feb;88(1):89-90. doi: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.89.
The proportions of 3,667 reports classified as unusual or odd events within eight major categories for four contiguous blocks of time between 1770 and 1970 were compared for disconcordance. The major source of the disconcordance (phi = .52) of reports between the major categories and time was due to the decrease in the numbers of reports of falls of ice, rocks, and animals but increased numbers of reports of odd luminosities, labelled as unidentified flying objects, after the mid 1930s. One hypothesis to explain this result is that cultural changes in attributions for causes of natural phenomena may affect their designation as strange rather than mundane.
对1770年至1970年期间四个连续时间段内八个主要类别中被归类为异常或奇特事件的3667份报告的比例进行了不一致性比较。主要类别和时间之间报告不一致的主要来源（φ = 0.52）是由于冰、岩石和动物坠落报告数量的减少，但在20世纪30年代中期之后，被标记为不明飞行物的奇特发光现象的报告数量增加。解释这一结果的一个假设是，对自然现象原因的归因中的文化变化可能会影响它们被指定为奇怪而非平凡的现象。
