Demonstrations.

We built Raven’s Eye so that it would be useful for a great variety of purposes. Indeed, the worldview revealed by Raven’s Eye is so expansive, and the opportunities for its application are so numerous, that some may find it disorienting. To aid in your focus, herein we add various demonstrations of Raven’s Eye, as we think of them. These demonstrations are generally derived from either our online surveys and experiments, or from information publicly available on the Internet.

Messages from the people of a dying planet.

This online survey of 1,034 Mechanical Turk workers in the United States was conducted on January 6th, 2020. Participants were asked their age, gender, and location, and then asked to rate their degree of comfort with sending a message to another star system in the hope that it will be received. Participants were then asked

In your own words, please tell us what message you would like to send to another star system in the hope that an extraterrestrial intelligence will receive it.

Americans on being in love.

This online survey of 994 Mechanical Turk workers in the United States was conducted from February 6th - February 9th, 2020. Participants were asked their age, gender, and location, and then asked to respond to three open-ended items:

In your own words, please tell us what does being in love mean to you?
In your own words, please describe your last experience of becoming aware that you were in love.
In your own words, please tell us, how do you know when someone is in love with you?

We then asked them to rate on a scale of 1-7 how much they were concerned about the main fear expressed in their nightmare, and how much of a daily worry their expressed worry is to them.

Nightmares and worries in the United States.

This online survey of 994 Mechanical Turk workers in the United States was conducted from October 15th - October 19th, 2019. Participants were asked their age, gender, and location, and then asked to respond to two open-ended items:

In your own words, please describe your most recent nightmare.
In your own words, please tell us what most worries you in your daily life.

We then asked them to rate on a scale of 1-7 how much they were concerned about the main fear expressed in their nightmare, and how much of a daily worry their expressed worry is to them.

Being thankful in America.

This online survey of 496 Mechanical Turk workers located in the United States of America was conduced from October 20th - October 22nd, 2018. It solicited participants’ age and gender, and then asked them to answer two questions: For what or whom are you most thankful, and why? At this time, what or whom do you need most, and why?

The meaning of life.

This multinational survey of 346 participants was conducted from September 15th-22nd, 2015, on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. It solicited participants’ age, gender, and nationality, and then asked them to respond to two open-ended questions concerning the meaning of life.

Likes and dislikes about living in Washington State and New York State, respectively.

This survey of Mechanical Turk workers located in either Washington State or New York State was created as an example for use on one of our founders' radio show. It illustrates the thematic differences in what people like or dislike about life, based on their geography and habits.

Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump? An online poll of voter preferences.

This opinion poll of 396 participants located in the United States was conduced from August 28th - September 1st, 2015, on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. It solicited participants’ age and gender, and then asked them to select whether they would vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, were national elections held today. It then asked them to list some reasons for selecting the person that they selected, as well as reasons for not selecting the person that they did not select.

Inaugural addresses of the Presidents of the United States of America.

This examination of online archival documents illustrates the speed of Raven’s Eye, by analyzing all of the inaugural addresses of the Presidents of the United States of America, in mere seconds.