Does Sadness Increase the Likelihood of Producing a Quality Thread?
Abstract:
To find out if the emotion, sadness, triggers quality we planted into the participants and watched them make a thread. It turns out that sadness does not produce the most qualitative thread.
To find out if the emotion, sadness, triggers quality we planted into the participants and watched them make a thread. It turns out that sadness does not produce the most qualitative thread.
Introduction:
A long standing problem in OT was the lack of quality threads being made. It is well known that OT is a seesaw, whereby the amount of quality threads needs to match the amount of trash threads in a ratio of 1:3 at the bare minimum. However, this is not the case at the moment, the amount of trash threads currently outweighs the amount of quality, although the seesaw has been balancing out, we must find the trigger for quality thread.
Here is a graph of the ratio of trash threads to quality threads
You can see that it has been rising, and during the start of April it showed a decline. We know for a start that every actions made by a human is driven by it's emotions, whether the action was adjusted by logic or not, the incentive originally is emotions. By that, we can give a rough idea of what sort of thread does each emotion drive towards by looking at the thread made by the person after a certain emotion is detected. With a result, it will show the emotion that best produces quality threads, therefore we can work on making every OT denizen feel such emotion and therefore increase the amount of quality threads produced.
We invited several participants anddragged their bodies out of their house asked them politely whether they would participate in a social experiment. We then forced them into a situation to feel the emotion, and finally observed them and keeping track of the thread they made. For this experiment, we had participant Levesterz to help us out. We only got one participant so we are allowed to skew the result There were other participants but they would like to be kept anonymous.
A long standing problem in OT was the lack of quality threads being made. It is well known that OT is a seesaw, whereby the amount of quality threads needs to match the amount of trash threads in a ratio of 1:3 at the bare minimum. However, this is not the case at the moment, the amount of trash threads currently outweighs the amount of quality, although the seesaw has been balancing out, we must find the trigger for quality thread.
Here is a graph of the ratio of trash threads to quality threads
You can see that it has been rising, and during the start of April it showed a decline. We know for a start that every actions made by a human is driven by it's emotions, whether the action was adjusted by logic or not, the incentive originally is emotions. By that, we can give a rough idea of what sort of thread does each emotion drive towards by looking at the thread made by the person after a certain emotion is detected. With a result, it will show the emotion that best produces quality threads, therefore we can work on making every OT denizen feel such emotion and therefore increase the amount of quality threads produced.
We invited several participants and
Method:
Participants were tide to a chair, unable to move. We thenpulled their loved ones and killed them made a short movie which showed a starving African kid. We made sure to play several tapes until the participants began bursting out tears. Next, we forced them into a room and locked their hands to a position in which they could only type. They were given an opportunity to rant on OT, and we then recorded their produced thread.
Participants were tide to a chair, unable to move. We then
Results
Participant Levesterz produced a thread title'd Happy Birthday to the month of June
1 thread produced
Rated by the scientist as a none-super-quality thread
Participant Levesterz produced a thread title'd Happy Birthday to the month of June
1 thread produced
Rated by the scientist as a none-super-quality thread
Discussion
It was shown through a fair experimental test with large sample data that with the sadness emotion triggered in the participant, it was not strong enough to produce a qualitative thread. There are some possible reasons for this. The first one being that the method did not provoke a sufficient amount of sadness in the participant. It was speculated that the amount ofloved ones killed starving African clips were not enough. Another possible reason being that sadness naturally is not a trigger for qualitative threads as it does not provide a driving motive for the person to write intense discussions since your fingers may feel too weak to type. Sadness is also a way to kill creativity as the mind only concentrate on the sad event therefore unable to freely roam around and search for hooks. In summary, sadness is not a good trigger for qualitative threads.
It was shown through a fair experimental test with large sample data that with the sadness emotion triggered in the participant, it was not strong enough to produce a qualitative thread. There are some possible reasons for this. The first one being that the method did not provoke a sufficient amount of sadness in the participant. It was speculated that the amount of
Author Information
Affiliations
Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Wenfeng Xia, Malcolm C. Finlay & Adrien E. Desjardins
Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Surgical and Interventional Sciences, University College London, Charles Bell House, 67-73 Riding House Street, London, W1W 7EJ, United Kingdom
Wenfeng Xia, Sebastien Ourselin, Anna L. David & Adrien E. Desjardins
Department of Anaesthesia, University College Hospital, Main Theatres, Maple Bridge Link Corridor, Podium 3, 235 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BU, United Kingdom
Simeon J. West
St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, United Kingdom
Malcolm C. Finlay
GePaSud, University of French Polynesia, Faa’a, 98702, French Polynesia
Jean-Martial Mari
Centre for Medical Imaging Computing, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Sebastien Ourselin
Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, 86-96 Chenies Mews, London, WC1E 6HX, United Kingdom
Anna L. David
Affiliations
Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Wenfeng Xia, Malcolm C. Finlay & Adrien E. Desjardins
Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Surgical and Interventional Sciences, University College London, Charles Bell House, 67-73 Riding House Street, London, W1W 7EJ, United Kingdom
Wenfeng Xia, Sebastien Ourselin, Anna L. David & Adrien E. Desjardins
Department of Anaesthesia, University College Hospital, Main Theatres, Maple Bridge Link Corridor, Podium 3, 235 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BU, United Kingdom
Simeon J. West
St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, United Kingdom
Malcolm C. Finlay
GePaSud, University of French Polynesia, Faa’a, 98702, French Polynesia
Jean-Martial Mari
Centre for Medical Imaging Computing, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Sebastien Ourselin
Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, 86-96 Chenies Mews, London, WC1E 6HX, United Kingdom
Anna L. David
