584 - Logical Reasoning

Mrs. Mason is gifted with psychic powers that enable her to foretell future events. In the past, Mrs. Mason has predicted such actual events as the election of President Clinton, the stock market crash of 1987, and the St. Louis Cardinals' 1982 World Series victory. These are just a few of Mrs. Mason's accurate predictions.
The answer to which of the following questions would be most useful in evaluating the strength of the argument above?

1. What percentage of Mrs. Mason's predictions has come true?
2. Could the election of President Reagan have been predicted without the help of psychic powers?
3. What is the actual mechanism by which Mrs. Mason's psychic powers are supposed to operate?
4. How long before the events in question did Mrs. Mason make her accurate predictions?
5. Do most scientists accept the idea that the power to predict the future through psychic means really exists?