[Heartlogic-dev] goal-pair histogram (was Re: reactions)

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 19:16 -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> ...here are more ruminations on which i would like your reaction...
> 
> our goal is just to sketch out this region of affectivee space.
> 
> if we can find believable stories in each of the 9 categories, great.
> if not, then we will at least know which ones are more "valid" than 
> others.
> 
> it might be interesting to see the relativve frequency of stories
> for each category.  it seems like no goal/ no goal  stories are
> pretty rare.  but goal goal or goal / anti goal are quite common.
> 
> maybe we could ask a bunch of people to write a little life story
> vinette.  we might be able to make qualitiative generaliziations
> about their personality by going over these essays and counting
> the number of goal pairs in each category....e.g. if fred's vinette
> had  a relatively high freeuqunedy of anti-goal/goal pairs then
> maybe he is considerd a jealous personality.  if bob had a high
> freq of goal / goal pairs in his vinette then he's a happy go lucky
> dude.

Sure, but a life story vignette might be too open-ended.  A similar idea
is to look at the goal-pair frequency in a particular game.  Say, chess
vs soccer vs juggling.

> ...am i "getting" your research idea?

Yes, I think so.

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