danceofdays
Bluelighter
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just did it for my first shroom trip. this is a great idea! thanks xorkoth for doing this for the community!
I suppose you could encourage people to attempt a blind placebo-controlled trip occasionally for the purposes of this survey. I imagine you'd have to be vaguely enthusiastic about the survey to be willing to do this, but perhaps enough would be willing to give a sense of what baseline is.
Basically, you could assign to two capsules the target chemical and a neutral substance of equivalent mass, randomly take one or the other, record TR and fill in survey, and check which was which afterwards (one method would be to have the two substances be slightly different masses, not humanly perceptible but detectable on your scales.
I do think, anyhow, that this survey can be very interesting and useful even without control trips in the data set.
uhhm yea i dont wanna plunge too deeply into your doings as they are advanced and welcome, however you could be so kind and consider the following, as you may certainly know the matter you are dealing with is very subjective.. what may heave the subject matter to a more scientific level would be a calling in of observings of a swecond instance that is you gotta compare the findings of the subject him/herself and anoher person and deduce an index rating which tells you how far apart self image and image as seen by others do lie.. doing this you can rate how accurately the person is able see his role as seen by others and isnt that what matters
Although of course you can't quantify the psychedelic experience
I really doubt it. A researcher's introspection alone (the typical approach of some of the earliest - pre-twentieth-century - psychologists) is a highly biased and uninformative way of discovering the psychological effects of anything, whether it be LSD or anything else, as has been demonstrated countless times in psychology. Our introspective judgments are clouded by our personal expectations and circumstances, and individual differences among different people would make a single researcher's experience pretty much useless on its own. A large survey of many people's introspective judgments, structured by a questionnaire, leaves some room for being biased by shared expectations (unless combined with a placebo-control condition or, better perhaps, an active control condition to mimic typical physical side effects), but does much to address the other issues.To be sure, the best way for a researcher to determine an effects profile for LSD is to take LSD and quit being so goddamned objective. lol