TEXT ✍Results

[dulynoted]

I apologize for the delay, but I have the results from the survey that I'd put out in January.

Section 000: Demographics

25.6% of users received the app in May 2017, followed by 20.5% in September 2017 while February, March, and November 2017 all tied for third at 12.8%.

Section 001: Visions/Memories





In regards to the question Do these memories have a consistent theme?, the response was an overwhelming Yes at 79.5%.

There were a number of different "themes" mentioned, but the most popular at 48.6% was Battles/Fighting. Tied for second was Work and Daily Life at 21.6%, followed by Monsters at 18.9% and Death at 16.2%.

In regards to whether or not respondent's memories matched someone else in Retrospec, 61.5% said Yes, while 33.3% said No. To those that responded Yes, 50% had known this person before Retrospec and 70% have shared at least one memory with them. To those that did not know them before, 50% met someone because of that memory.

Section 002: Physical Changes




In regards to the types of physical changes people are experiencing, the most common is Eyes (color or shape) at 45%. The second most common was Hair (color and length were reported) at 35%. In third was previous injuries or scarring at 20%.

Section 003: Abilities/Skills




Both Combat Abilities/Weapons Proficiency and Magic Affinity/Spell Casting were tied for first at 39.3%. Second was Enhanced Strength at 32.1%. Language Acquisition/Proficiency and Enhanced Sense tied for third at 17.9%.

Section 004: Conclusions

Arguably the sample size was not large enough to draw definition conclusions, so please take the analysis below with that in mind.

I was unable to find any correlation between the number of memories received or the type of memories regained. There was no correlation between the date of Retrospect acquisition and memory frequency or themes. There was also no correlation between the types of memories received and physical changes.

Unsurprisingly, here was a high overlap between those who have memories about battles/fighting and those who gained some sort of combat affinity/weapons proficiency--72.7%. Of course, battles/fighting was overall the most common theme in memories and combat abilities/weapons proficiency was also the most common skill to gain, so it would be unlikely there wouldn't be overlap.

Also unsurprisingly, most who could track the catalyst for their memories regained them immediately--85.7%.

Unfortunately, other than reporting these basic statistics, there wasn't anything remarkable in the results. If you're interested in there raw data, I can provide it with personally identifiable information removed.

Let me know if you have any questions as I am happy to discuss the results or take requests for a comparison that I haven't mentioned. I appreciate your participation and input.

- A. Turner

Comments

[eyestitch]

HEY!

loverboy! yeah, latte hero!

i've got a bone or two to pick with you over this super special past life survey! heeeey, maybe i even have enough i could outfit a cute high school bio classroom, who knows!

[dulynoted]

[ ...Oh boy. How could he forget? ]

Nice to see you gain.

What's this skeleton you have for me?

[eyestitch]

[She is truly an unforgettable person, and she prides herself on that!]

what, you're not even gonna get all defensive of your important work and go all peacocky? boys sure are weird...

anyway here's the 💀

it's been like four months! you know, now you need to figure how many of us r even still AROUND for this to make sense!

[dulynoted]

[ That is certainly the true. ]

It's a fair gripe, I won't deny it. I meant to consolidate the results earlier, but I've been busy.

[eyestitch]

you're taking this criticism so smoothly! how annoying!

i mean, that's really good that you're open to feedback from others and all!

what have you been so busy doing that this ALL IMPORTANT study couldn't be published right away anyway, huh?

[dulynoted]

Sorry to disappoint.

Unfortunately, some of that is confidential. But I have been spending a lot of time on my dissertation.

[eyestitch]

tbh you should be

maybe i should make you buy me another coffee just to heal my poor broken heart💔💔💔💔 especially now that you're all 'oh, that's confidential!'

neway, you know what else? talking to you gave me another one of those stupid dreamories to deal with!

[dulynoted]

[ At least one of those sentences is interesting to him. ]

Did it?

Well, I apologize for keeping you waiting. Would another coffee help?

[matchbreaker]

Golly, I sort of knew most people were getting stronger, but I didn't realize it was this pronounced people were from battle worlds.

[dulynoted]

Considering how often "monster fighting" has become a thing of Retrospec, it makes sense. Also considering the theory that we are from potentially destroyed worlds could very well lead to conflict and battle as a common theme.

[matchbreaker]

Well yeah!

But I've still gotten none of it, for all my other abilities and such. I guess I didn't think it was *that* pronounced.

That's a good point RE: the worlds though

[dulynoted]

I do have those, occasionally.

[ And by occasionally we mean all the time in his world. ]

Maybe we have more in common with our peers than we thought?

[matchbreaker]

What, the people here or back there? What's the peers?

[dulynoted]

I was referring to here, but back in our original worlds would work too.

[matchbreaker]

Well I have a lot of family and friends on this app.

So I knew that.

[deathboss]

I wasn't there in January but a lot of these statistic already fit with mine.

Nnnoot sure if I want to experience physical changes.

[dulynoted]

Thank you for confirming the data is still relevant.

At least the odds are in your favor. Most hair and eye changes were in color.

[deathboss]

Gosh how do you even explain eye color to 4 million fans on youtube.

Hello I'm trying some brand new cosplay? Or how does that work? Do people around you just...accept it?

[dulynoted]

[ Easily enough, he imagines. ]

The burden of popularity.

Though in all likeliness, the changes would probably be accepted as easily as all the other strangeness that goes on around here.

[deathboss]

Oh so like if you don't realize it, then no one else will kinda thing...


...that or I'll wake up to some sort of conspiracy theory video about me.

[dulynoted]

The internet is unforgiving.

[spes_phthisica]

well, "it's all pretty random" is a kind of a result too, right?
not as neat as an obvious pattern, maybe, but it still tells us something

[dulynoted]

A null result is still a result, yes. It would certainly give more credit to what we've heard from Retrospec's spokespeople.

[spes_phthisica]

you have a point there
if they just kind of gathered us up like they said and are trying to maintain some place for us to be, it would make sense if we’re all mostly random people
though the thing where so many of us are fighters of some sort makes me wonder a bit still

[dulynoted]

And the amount of people who already know others prior to realizing they're both Retrospec users. They could just write it off by accidentally grabbing the same "clump" of souls, so to speak, but as you mentioned there's a very clear set of skills representing. Skills that have come in useful on multiple occasions thanks to the changes Retrospec has let us experience.