This is the data set of our Neurogram research. The Neurogram is the neurological version of the Enneagram. The Neurogram is about the hardware of the brain. For more information, see: NLP & the Neurogram

We are extremely confident in our approach to personality typing with the Neurogram. So much in fact that we offer the following bet: we will pay you 95 euro for each person doing the subjective Bayesian Neurogram test that is not convinced of his or her personality type as long as you pay us 5,- euro each time they do for the next 100 people participating in this test.

How to read the data set. Each line is a participant. Tests have been done by NLP coaches and NLP trainers of the NLP Circle Foundation Europe. The first number is that probability that for a certain persons that behavioral patterns of that type fit his or her behavior. The number in parenthesis behind it is the prior the person had assigned themselves. That way you can spot the people who had done a similar personality type earlier.

Here is an overview of all the data sets we have thus far. All the actually data sets follow below.

The main data set is about Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). There are currently three versions: 2.1, 3.1 and 4.1. The first version was just a proof of concept without any real data.

So historically we set out with the NLP data set version 2.1to start with. This data set is about the direct results of the three main NLP techniques to control what you feel, imagine and think. It shows that  overall with 77 out of 81 people (95%) their trust in NLP grows after learning the three basic NLP techniques. That is an encouring result. Yet at the same time we realized that it was also very short term. It only looked at how people felt directly after doing the exercises. Also we had no way of knowing whether these were people who had major issues or not.

In order to get more detail and look for longer periods we changed our approach to version 3.1 where we only look at people who have had at least 500 problem days for the last 1000 days before they started out with NLP. In fact on average the data set about people who have had 800 problem days for the last 1000 days before they started out with NLP. In this data set it is shown that 49 out of 61 people (80%) that their life improves considerably after learning NLP. On average we followed people for 60 days after they started to do NLP. As subjective Bayesian statistics allows for continuously monitoring we keep track of all those participants who want that. Some of them we are already following for more than a year.

As the version 3.1 research focuses on people who experience severe problems, we also wanted to look into how NLP improves the lives of people on the other end of the scale. So the next data set, version 4.1, looks into how people who may or may not have severe problems get more days that they themselves qualify as very good to perfect. The objective of this research is to see whether you can use NLP to make a life that is already good even better. The first results will be published early december 2013.

Finally there is specific research into how NLP improves the abilities of teachers in terms of how well their students learn and how well their students behave. The first results of this research will be published early january 2014.

Proposed bet for the next 100 cases where NLP Circle Foundation NLP coaches or NLP trainers teach someone the three basic NLP techniques for controlling how you feel, imagine and think:

1. you win 95,- euro each time someone’s appreciation of NLP doesn’t increase;
2. as long as you pay us 5,- euro each time someone’s appreciation of NLP does increase.

Always read the general introduction to the interpretation of this data beforehand. Please, make up your mind before looking at the data set whether you would take on this bet. Then look at the data set in close detail and see whether you still stand by your original decision. And remember that if you refrain from betting against us your true probability estimation is at least as high as ours if not higher.

Proposed bet for the next 100 cases where a  NLP Circle Foundation NLP coach or NLP trainer coaches or trains someone who has had more than 500 problem days in the last 1000 days before he started doing NLP:

1. you win 80,- euro each time someone’s life doesn’t improve;
2. as long as you pay us 20,- euro each time someone’s life does improve.

Always read the general introduction to the interpretation of this data beforehand. Please, make up your mind before looking at the data set whether you would take on this bet. Then look at the data set in close detail and see whether you still stand by your original decision. And remember that if you refrain from betting against us your true probability estimation is at least as high as ours if not higher.

The purpose of this data set was to see whether NLP improved the lives for people who were perfectly okay. In the NLP 3.1 data set we looked at people who on average had 800 problem days for the last 1000 days. Quite disturbed people. In the NLP 4.1 data set we looked at how many people without major issues would improve their very good to perfect days. As it turns out only about 33% actually did. So we are not going to have any bets on this research. The results simply aren’t good enough. As the participants were overall enthousiastic and love to continue their NLP training we asked why most of them drop in the number of very good to perfect days. Most common answer was that about 80% of the participants became more critical. What used to count as a very good to perfect day wasn’t any longer after some NLP training. Who would have thought that people get more critical from the right kind of NLP training rather than report unrealistically high number of very good to perfect days.