<transcript><audio_159>isn't possible or feasible so here i recruited people who had a good amount of meditation experience and compared them to a group of people who had never meditated before</transcript><transcript><audio_160>and the idea is you want the groups to be as similar as possible and to be only differing on the variable that you're interested in of course that's not always possible because human beings are you know infinitely variable but for for this study um</transcript><transcript><audio_161>we did several things to try to make the groups as equal as possible we matched them on on five demographic factors but i think the most important thing was we um</transcript><transcript><audio_162>there's been there's been some evidence that people will do as well in a study as you expect them to so if you give people a big long questionnaire um asking them all about their meditation experience and then you give them an</transcript><transcript><audio_163>attention task there's an implicit knowledge on their part that they're supposed to do well on this task um and at the time a lot of meditation studies weren't</transcript><transcript><audio_164>controlling for that necessarily so what we did was we recruited each control subject for each meditator they had let's see they were the same age gender uh level of education</transcript> isn't possible or feasible so here i recruited people who had a good amount of meditation experience and compared them to a group of people who had never meditated before and the idea is you want the groups to be as similar as possible and to be only differing on the variable that you're interested in of course that's not always possible because human beings are you know infinitely variable but for for this study um we did several things to try to make the groups as equal as possible we matched them on on five demographic factors but i think the most important thing was we um there's been there's been some evidence that people will do as well in a study as you expect them to so if you give people a big long questionnaire um asking them all about their meditation experience and then you give them an attention task there's an implicit knowledge on their part that they're supposed to do well on this task um and at the time a lot of meditation studies weren't controlling for that necessarily so what we did was we recruited each control subject for each meditator they had let's see they were the same age gender uh level of education
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