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I tried doing a visualization research experiment before, and I don't think it worked out so well. I'd like to do it again, but I think it needs to be redesigned. So I'm throwing this out there. How do you all think this should be done?

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All that I can think of is that people should mention if they've accomplished things like imposition or give us an idea of how good their visualization skills are before they participate.

 

If you do start it up again, we'd like to try.

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The only thing that didn't work well was the long-term time investment, where people were a little less than motivated to keep practicing and progressing for the whole duration.

 

 

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Here's my 2cts in 3 points:

1) As I've laid out in the original thread it's really hard to get comparable results if you don't keep the test setup extremely simple.

For example:

report skills -> do simple practice for a fixed time each day -> report back after 1 month

 

The key is - everyone needs to do more or less exactly the same practice for the same amount of time in the same intervals. For example 30mins each day for 1 month

(sounds terrible and I'm sure I'm not better than Reisen/Lumi at keeping this up)

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This way a qualitative statement (doing practice X has a/no measurable effect on visualization skills) should be possible.

Everything else will give you way too much variables to deal with and I would not even bother with any quantitative statements.

 

2) Another interesting experiment we had were correlations between self-reported visualization skills and certain other skills that can be tested IQ-style wise. At least with the settings we had there were no correlations at all. Such tests may also be used to see if you can objectively improve your skills of - let's say rotating bodies in your mind - with a certain visualization practice. I think we should do this again.

 

report skills -> do test -> practice for 1 month -> do test again -> report skills again

 

3) Most interesting - I wonder if it is possible to design an objective visualization test to back up the self-reported data. This could happen much like the body rotation tests. Imagine a body doing certain movements and then answer questions about it. For example, which parts of it are you able to see if it is in a certain position? How do certain movement sequences work? I know finding the right questions and answer options will be hard but such test should be able to show if you are able to visualize e.g. a human body in correct proportions, postures and the range of its movements.

I know this is only a part of what visualizing a tulpa is about but an important part nonetheless. I have no ideas how the visualization of colors could be tested.

 

Anyway, if you come up with some useful test design, I could do the statistics again.

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I don't see the problem here.

Either instruct the guinea pigs test subjects to take the test immediately after doing a certain practice if you want to look into short-term effects, or have them take a 3-day break after the last practice when performing a long-term experiment. This should eliminate interference by short-term gains.

 

Finding the right test-questions would be the far greater challenge.

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