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Re: Statistics
tattooted: Its an interesting one - I suspect we possibly all interpret things within our own frameworks. It would be intersting
On the witch archtype - it was clearly big in ealier times and (like the vampire) has made the transition to fiction and so stays alive that way and is still very potent. There is a TV ad on at the moment for some kind of hair product and I have no idea why but they show three generations of women and the older lady has long straight grey/silver hair and I don't know why but I find it oddly unsettling and people I've spoke to also say it gets to them somehow and suggest it might be because she recalls the idea of a witch somehow. Anyone know which one I'm talking about? I could probably find a piccie with more details.
Its difficult to comment really (I don't know your sampling procedure, how ou categorise things, etc.) but your results are very interesting.
It certianly seems to fly in the face of other collections of SP attacks - I don't have the time to go back through the thread here and see if any patterns emerge but I will have to pencil it in.
tattooted: Its an interesting one - I suspect we possibly all interpret things within our own frameworks. It would be intersting
On the witch archtype - it was clearly big in ealier times and (like the vampire) has made the transition to fiction and so stays alive that way and is still very potent. There is a TV ad on at the moment for some kind of hair product and I have no idea why but they show three generations of women and the older lady has long straight grey/silver hair and I don't know why but I find it oddly unsettling and people I've spoke to also say it gets to them somehow and suggest it might be because she recalls the idea of a witch somehow. Anyone know which one I'm talking about? I could probably find a piccie with more details.
OldTimeRadio said:Emps, I spent a long afternoon going through my SP files and attempting to compile statistics as to both types and frequency of OH visualizations
I'm only about one-third of the way through, but so far I've established 22 categories. Of those, "Old Crone" accounts are indeed the largest single group, at 26 1/4 percent of the reports. The nearest runners-up are "Demons" (10 percent) and "Black or Dark Shadow Entities" at 8 3/4 percent. For what it's worth, "Old Man" reports come in at a mere 3 3/4 percent.
Now the charge may be leveled that I unconsciously selected for "Crones," but if that were truly the case I don't believe I would have come up with (so far) 22 types.
Its difficult to comment really (I don't know your sampling procedure, how ou categorise things, etc.) but your results are very interesting.
It certianly seems to fly in the face of other collections of SP attacks - I don't have the time to go back through the thread here and see if any patterns emerge but I will have to pencil it in.