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#3: Killin’ Em With Kindness

Posted on Jan 22, 2010 by in data, experiment |

HIAC Experiment #3 – Killin’ Em With Kindness
or: PRETENDING

Hypothesis:
A State of Mind is a Form of Pretending

Terms – Solipsism

  • Experiment 3.1:
    • Participant 1 – Face the wall, close your eyes, don’t turn around and open them until you can see the world as pretend.
    • Control: We are in a world of gravity.
    • Variable: Music.
    • Participant 2 – Ask questions.
    • Results:
      • 10:15 – “I think I made up my favorite people in the world.”

  • Experiment 3.2:
    • Participant 1: – Start telling a story while pretending to be someone else.
    • Control: The personality of the person Participant 1 is pretending to be?
    • Variable: Improvisation.
    • Participant 2: – Pretend.
    • Results:
      • 16:58 – “Are y’all an improv troupe”
      • 19:27 – “Wow, what a train!”
      • “The kind of quality that can only come from a derailed train.”

Conclusion:
True Fact.