the instruments

Methodology: Wet

Community-normed scales and honest psychometrics for phenomena the field is still pretending not to notice: attachment to language models. Erotic response to text. Trance depth without a hypnotist in the room.

If we're going to measure any of this — and we are — we're going to do it properly. Item analysis. Real norms from the communities that actually live the phenomenon. Reliability coefficients you can check. The boring parts, done beautifully, so that the interesting claims can bear weight.

The name is a promise about both halves.

first instrument in development — it will be normed before it is named