Hi Amatory Soul.
I would like to comment also on what you asked last month
YOu wrote:
"Talking about studies done outside of LearningStrategies, what do you guys think of:
http://www.cosphere.com/PR/PhotoReading_Analysis.pdf This was an independent study by a PR participant who took the self study, the seminar and a personal coach and then compared results with a PR expert.
According to this study, PR gives a false sense of comprehension that is evident when you are tested in detail on the atter you read.
Any thoughts ? "
OK. My thoughts:
Regarding the study on
www.cosphere.com:
I have been real busy with my work and finally had a chance to thoroughly read that study.
It was a real test of my PR, as I was not motivated to read the details of the study. Why? I know PR has increased my reading retention, speed of reading , comprehension. How do I know? I took practice recertification tests for my field of work and flunked them all royally, with no clue as to why I was failing. My Anthony Robbins coach suggested that I try PR and gave me materials from Paul Scheele's Minnesota seminar to study.
I passed the recert exams in FLYING COLORS, with only 6 weeks to study over 6 years of material from undergrad and grad school.
OK . The test had a good null hypothesis and the parameters were well defined. However, the ANOVA ( analysis of variance :mean, median, mode, etc) would be difficult to analyze as the study only had 2 people. Therefore one would be hard pressed to draw truly significant conclusions (STATISTICS 101), as n=2. Second, one of the participants was a NEWLY graduated PR trainee, who may or may not have had adequate time to truly get competency at photofocus, incubation, and activation techniques. We also see on this forum, that many newbies defeat themselves with PR by just not believeing it can work and it takes them months of PR postgraduate forum posting of questions and answers before they get the "AHA" it does work! Third, how motivated is anybody to read materials just for the sake of an experiment versus real life apllication, such as a school exam or work assignment. Internal motivation and subsequent development of purpose statements are a critical part of how effective the incubation and activation stages progress.
The experimenter concluded there were NO benefits to Photoreading, based on this. As we see the experiment had quite a few design flaws.
Even if the experiment were not flawed, I can not conclude PR is not helpful.
PR's strength for myself is the building of motivation and confidence built up after the subconscious has "captured and evaluated the materials". Even during my actual recert exam, I experienced what I later was to learn was "spooky activation". The answers just seemed to flow, as I read the questions. The more practice I get with PR , the more this process of "spooky activation" builds in my entire life.
If you are unfamiliar with spooky activation, it is that deja vu experience of something that you actually have not seen consciously before, but yet you feel you have seen it, because the subconscious saw it and the OTC processed it.
