It’s seems difficult in a first place to measure… But why not. Validity and sensitivity won’t be that big of a problem if you decide to use standardized tests. I’m more concern about fidelity.
It will most likely contain some error. Your test can give you some result that you might interpret when in reality it can only show random fluctuation. Understand here : There are standardized tests, so they won’t show you random fluctuations but they’re designed to measure a criteria IN GENERAL and not the part of this measure which is due to your meditation. Here there is kind of a blurring between sensitivity and fidelity...
Fidelity : I’m concern about consistency, there is so much things that can interfere with this especially when you’re trying to measure stress (Stroop), attention and time reaction : tiredness, motivation etc.. And each of these factors are altered by your meditation routine ! It’s kind of a mess. (Maybe Alpha Cronbach ?)
You would need a large amount of try to get some usable data out of it. You would also need to control general tiredness and motivation, who can have a large impact on your result (would be the first thing i’d measure in fact)… Well it seems difficult and I won’t be the person who’s going to stat this up !
I suggest you use standardized test used for meditation if it exists in pseudo clean condition (the cleaner you can)
You would also need to control general tiredness and motivation, who can have a large impact on your result
I’m interested in the causal effect that meditation has on my attention, etc. If that effect is mediated through, e.g., reducing fatigue, all the better!
I suggest you use standardized test used for meditation if it exists in pseudo clean condition
Do you know of any? Right now I plan to use tagtime to do free-form experience sampling, plus the meditation games on Quantified Mind once a week or so. (Thanks all for these suggestions!)
Yes, attention can be indeed mediated through general tiredness and general motivation but also a large number of other factors like cognition need. The idea is that all of these factors can be well modified by other things than your meditation routine (for example tiredness can be modified just by what you did the very same you make the test), making the measurement difficult implement, can be done but with a hell ton of stats...
No i don’t know any, with a quick research i found this article in the NYT that maybe can give some hints
Studies are linked but of course it’ll cost you some money… But you might note that results needs a intensive routine in order to be significant. with a strong training, tests like Wais might be relevant after a few weeks but again i’m not sure these test are made for this purpose unfortunatly...
Good night !
EDIT : Testing bottom up process could be interesting in order to measure attention. A lot of tests are available for visual, auditory attention. Create your own items and make the passation randomized, measure reaction time. One or two weeek with no meditation at all and same duration for with meditation. Present results in term of Z-score and check for trust-interval with the standard deviation of you consider relevant.
It’s seems difficult in a first place to measure… But why not. Validity and sensitivity won’t be that big of a problem if you decide to use standardized tests. I’m more concern about fidelity.
It will most likely contain some error. Your test can give you some result that you might interpret when in reality it can only show random fluctuation. Understand here : There are standardized tests, so they won’t show you random fluctuations but they’re designed to measure a criteria IN GENERAL and not the part of this measure which is due to your meditation. Here there is kind of a blurring between sensitivity and fidelity...
Fidelity : I’m concern about consistency, there is so much things that can interfere with this especially when you’re trying to measure stress (Stroop), attention and time reaction : tiredness, motivation etc.. And each of these factors are altered by your meditation routine ! It’s kind of a mess. (Maybe Alpha Cronbach ?)
You would need a large amount of try to get some usable data out of it. You would also need to control general tiredness and motivation, who can have a large impact on your result (would be the first thing i’d measure in fact)… Well it seems difficult and I won’t be the person who’s going to stat this up !
I suggest you use standardized test used for meditation if it exists in pseudo clean condition (the cleaner you can)
Good luck
I’m interested in the causal effect that meditation has on my attention, etc. If that effect is mediated through, e.g., reducing fatigue, all the better!
Do you know of any? Right now I plan to use
tagtimeto do free-form experience sampling, plus the meditation games on Quantified Mind once a week or so. (Thanks all for these suggestions!)Yes, attention can be indeed mediated through general tiredness and general motivation but also a large number of other factors like cognition need. The idea is that all of these factors can be well modified by other things than your meditation routine (for example tiredness can be modified just by what you did the very same you make the test), making the measurement difficult implement, can be done but with a hell ton of stats...
No i don’t know any, with a quick research i found this article in the NYT that maybe can give some hints
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/how-meditation-might-boost-your-test-scores/
Studies are linked but of course it’ll cost you some money… But you might note that results needs a intensive routine in order to be significant. with a strong training, tests like Wais might be relevant after a few weeks but again i’m not sure these test are made for this purpose unfortunatly...
Good night !
EDIT : Testing bottom up process could be interesting in order to measure attention. A lot of tests are available for visual, auditory attention. Create your own items and make the passation randomized, measure reaction time. One or two weeek with no meditation at all and same duration for with meditation. Present results in term of Z-score and check for trust-interval with the standard deviation of you consider relevant.