06-27-2016, 09:40 PM
(06-27-2016, 09:35 PM)InTheZone Wrote:(06-27-2016, 09:20 PM)Rayhon Wrote: In my opinion I think Shannon is right that it's best to avoid a situation in where someone can jeopardize his business & use this technology for evil.
I also think it's best for this to stay underground for now & spread naturally. I don't think it being mainstream now would be the best idea because if the gov't wants they will find a way to monopolize or ban subliminals all together. If they can ban collecting rainwater they can ban anything.
God forbid that happens & knock on wood.
If we showed an effect with subliminal audio it would probably spawn a bunch of new research in that area and might give that technology away to all of his competitors as well. My guess is that his competitors don't read the research anyways but if he used it for advertisement then it would probably tip them off. I was thinking about suggesting a study conducted online in which he could produce a series of subliminals that showed a variety of psychological effects that we could measure through online surveys. The advantage of this is that he wouldn't have to give any technology away. The disadvantage is that there would not be as much scientific credibility to such a study. I think he could get the participants from the forum and we could do a double blind study in which nobody knows which subliminal they are getting so there would be no way to have a placebo effect. It would be a fun study to run.
Such a study would be worthless unless it was done using a variety of very specific strictures and involved a variety of peer reviews. Formal scientific studies ar very strict and very rigid. The goal is to weed out all possible erroroneous thinking in drawing a conclusion. Psychology in general presents a challenge for achieving viable hard scientific scrutiny by it's very nature. I am very much interested in doing formal studies and clinical trials, but they need to be very tightly controlled for anyone who has serious scientific credentials to even think twice about taking them seriously.
Then, they have to be independently verified and reproduced by a number of different sources, all of whom get to take pot shots at and criticize them in an effort to disprove the original results.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!