Jason Meno

I didn't run any... I haven't run that test yet. When I look at the distribution of the data, they look like different distributions. Like when I run a box plot and histogram, started to get nerdy about it. But yeah, they do look like different distributions, but their averages are very close and their medians are very close.

I didn't run any... I haven't run that test yet. When I look at the distribution of the data, they look like different distributions. Like when I run a box plot and histogram, started to get nerdy about it. But yeah, they do look like different distributions, but their averages are very close and their medians are very close.

Yeah, you can think of it as very different clusters. The people who finished the meditations, they're pretty spread out all across the board. So there were people who didn't think the meditation was going to have much of any effect. There were people who thought that, yeah, it definitely was going to have an effect and everywhere in between.

Yeah, you can think of it as very different clusters. The people who finished the meditations, they're pretty spread out all across the board. So there were people who didn't think the meditation was going to have much of any effect. There were people who thought that, yeah, it definitely was going to have an effect and everywhere in between.

But the people who didn't finish, they definitely seem to be more clustered into the side of thinking that it really won't have much of an effect or it won't be that helpful. So a lot of these questions, I'm also asking very similar repeatable questions as well to increase the reliance of these metrics.

But the people who didn't finish, they definitely seem to be more clustered into the side of thinking that it really won't have much of an effect or it won't be that helpful. So a lot of these questions, I'm also asking very similar repeatable questions as well to increase the reliance of these metrics.

Like basically for the question of will it make you feel better and how much do you believe that it will be rewarding? They're very, very similar questions. And in both of these cases... How much do they believe it will be rewarding? About 62% for the finishers and 55% for people who didn't finish.

Like basically for the question of will it make you feel better and how much do you believe that it will be rewarding? They're very, very similar questions. And in both of these cases... How much do they believe it will be rewarding? About 62% for the finishers and 55% for people who didn't finish.

Yeah, that's right. Very, very similar. And now we get into the neutral effect of the question now is how much do you believe that meditation will have little effect at all? And with this one, this is a negative question. I would say this is a neutral question. The negative question, which I also asked, which is how much do you believe meditation will make you feel worse?

Yeah, that's right. Very, very similar. And now we get into the neutral effect of the question now is how much do you believe that meditation will have little effect at all? And with this one, this is a negative question. I would say this is a neutral question. The negative question, which I also asked, which is how much do you believe meditation will make you feel worse?

That's right. Yeah. The question was, how much do you believe meditation will have little effect? Little effect, kind of not very effective. Not very effective, right. Oh, okay. And the finishers, their belief was 27%. So not very many people. So there was a little bit of signal there that there was some skepticism that it would have little effect, but it's small. Yeah.

That's right. Yeah. The question was, how much do you believe meditation will have little effect? Little effect, kind of not very effective. Not very effective, right. Oh, okay. And the finishers, their belief was 27%. So not very many people. So there was a little bit of signal there that there was some skepticism that it would have little effect, but it's small. Yeah.

And the non-finishers was 35. So almost eight points higher. So definitely people who did not finish didn't think it would have an effect either. The next question was meditation. How much do you believe meditation will be a complete waste of time?

And the non-finishers was 35. So almost eight points higher. So definitely people who did not finish didn't think it would have an effect either. The next question was meditation. How much do you believe meditation will be a complete waste of time?

Yep. And the finishers said 17%. So 17 out of 100 is what their average score was. And the non-finishers was 26 out of 100, so nine points higher. Yeah, so the people who did not finish it, well, they started off believing. Like, they didn't even meditate yet, but they believed that it would be a waste of time. And...

Yep. And the finishers said 17%. So 17 out of 100 is what their average score was. And the non-finishers was 26 out of 100, so nine points higher. Yeah, so the people who did not finish it, well, they started off believing. Like, they didn't even meditate yet, but they believed that it would be a waste of time. And...

And in context, like one of the earlier questions we asked was, how familiar are you with meditation? And both groups were moderately familiar, you know, around, I think it was in the 60s. So it's possible these groups of people, they've meditated before. And if they had a good time in the past, they might think that they'll have a good time now.

And in context, like one of the earlier questions we asked was, how familiar are you with meditation? And both groups were moderately familiar, you know, around, I think it was in the 60s. So it's possible these groups of people, they've meditated before. And if they had a good time in the past, they might think that they'll have a good time now.

If they had a bad time in the past, they might think they have a bad time again. So I imagine that their past experiences are probably coloring these expectations they're having. And then the next two questions were, how much do you believe that meditation will make you feel worse? And those numbers for finishers was 8, 8%, 8 out of 100. And non-finishers was 13.

If they had a bad time in the past, they might think they have a bad time again. So I imagine that their past experiences are probably coloring these expectations they're having. And then the next two questions were, how much do you believe that meditation will make you feel worse? And those numbers for finishers was 8, 8%, 8 out of 100. And non-finishers was 13.