[Noisebridge-discuss] [hackerspaces] lunar calendar recommendations?

[Gopiballava Flaherty]

That's a very good point. If you want to test the hypothesis, "my canine teeth get longer and raw meat tastes better during the full moon", you probably want to deliberately avoid knowing when it's a full moon. Keep a log of how tasty kibbe nayeh (or other favorite raw meat dish) is, and how long your canine teeth are. Then, after a few months, check how well that correlates with full moons. 

It is truly astounding how easy it is to affect subjective measurements. When you tell people they are about to hear sound through $5k speaker cables, they very frequently believe the sound is better. When you alternate between $5k speaker cables and cheap zip cord, asking people to note quality without telling them which is which, they can't tell the difference. 

Thanks,

gopi at iPhone


On Dec 25, 2011, at 12:01, Yves Quemener <quemener.yves at free.fr> wrote:

> I won't get into this discussion about the moon effects, but I just want
> to react on this :
>> Anyway I'll have to investigate more on that and I think that to
>> switch for lunar calendar will help me to be able to see the effects
>> of the moon phases on me more clearly, so in a year or two I can
>> report on that a bit, it will take time ...
> Switching to the lunar calendar will make you more aware of the current
> phase of the moon and will on the contrary impair your ability to
> objectively observe the effects on moon phases on yourself. The protocol
> you are proposing will most likely just reinforce preexisting beliefs.
> 
> If you seriously want to study the effects of the moon phases, you
> should do so through subjects that are foreign to the system you want to
> prove,otherwise you open yourself to confirmation bias
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias) that has proven to
> exist even in honest observers that consciously try to be objective.