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method:student-life-comparison-experimentstudent life comparison experiment
Asking architecture students to choose which of two buildings/scenes has more life, then categorizing their willingness to answer.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Chapters (1)
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- Degrees of LifeintroducesChapter 2, introducing the concept that all space has an objective, measurable degree of life.
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Alexander's method of spending 2-3 hours daily for twenty years comparing pairs of artifacts and buildings, asking which has more life, and identifying structural features correlating with greater wholeness
- Experimental method where subjects choose which of two items has more life, yielding agreement and a relative measure of life.
- Novel task asking which of two sentences received a stronger injection, using matched-pairs design to control for positional bias
- Asks what underlying reality causes the consistent choices.
- Result from another student experiment comparing a medieval manuscript to a contemporary wall detail.
- The more general, daily-use version of the mirror-of-self test: asking which of A or B induces greater feeling of wholeness in the observer
- A method to measure living structure by the degree of life people experience in themselves.