Historical protocol version — current-status note: This page preserves the June 2026 v1.3 design (N=40, minimum 30) and its YEGJ8 link. Read the current human-study status and comparison of all three designs. Later project documentation describes a distinct N=59 three-cohort design (Control, Affine Priming, Morphological Priming) and names 2NKZA; the YEGJ8/2NKZA identity and status relationship remains unresolved. No human outcome is established. IRB approval is declared in project documents; the approval certificate was not independently located in the audited artifact set.
Historical v1.3 draft · registration unverified
VPE-001 v1.3 — Historical Protocol
LUXVAR Semantic Classification Study · v1.3 Final · June 2026
What this study evaluates:
Whether independent evaluators unfamiliar with LUXVAR can classify LUXVAR words into semantic axes above predefined baselines and above matched control-word performance.
What this study does NOT test: Physical-field claims, consciousness-field interaction, non-human origin, Torus-PSI, or frequency effects.
What this study does NOT test: Physical-field claims, consciousness-field interaction, non-human origin, Torus-PSI, or frequency effects.
Study Design
| Target evaluators | N = 40 (minimum 30) |
| Eligibility | Adult; no prior LUXVAR exposure; independent of VARZIN development |
| LUXVAR stimuli | 80 canonical words (Core + Numeric sets) |
| Control stimuli | 80 length-matched artificial controls |
| Semantic axes | Light · Reflection · Silence · Gate · Motion |
| Majority-class baseline | 27.5% (Reflection, 22/80 items) |
| Accuracy floor | ≥ 30% (pre-registered) |
| Calibration phase | 5 evaluators, 20 items, Fleiss' Kappa ≥ 0.15 |
Statistical Pipeline
| Primary metric | Fleiss' Kappa (inter-rater agreement) |
| Primary test | Permutation test vs majority-class baseline |
| Secondary test | Chi-square |
| Correction | False Discovery Rate — Benjamini-Hochberg |
| Sensitivity analysis | Exclude participants flagging ≥ 10 familiar items |
| Alternative explanations | AE-1 Sound symbolism · AE-2 Phonaesthetic bias · AE-3 Orthographic bias |
| Subgroup analysis | Core Set (n=30) vs Numeric Set (n=50) — v1.4 Addendum |
Success Criteria — All 6 Must Be Satisfied Simultaneously
C1
LUXVAR accuracy > majority-class baseline
C2
LUXVAR accuracy > control-word accuracy
C3
FDR-corrected p < 0.05
C4
Fleiss' Kappa ≥ 0.20
C5
Sensitivity analysis directionally consistent
C6
LUXVAR accuracy ≥ 30%
Failure Rule: If any single criterion is not met, H1 is rejected.
No post-hoc reinterpretation is permitted.
Negative results will be recorded as Dissonance in the Evidence Registry.
Execution Roadmap
1
OSF Pre-Registration
Upload protocol PDF + materials package. Record timestamp. No data collection before timestamp.
2
Calibration Phase
5 independent evaluators · 20 items · Fleiss' Kappa ≥ 0.15 · Axis concentration check
3
Main Recruitment
Target N = 40 · Minimum N = 30 · Full blinded protocol
4
Data Analysis
All 6 criteria · Sensitivity analysis · Alternative explanation tests · Report result regardless of direction
5
Replication
Level 1: independent evaluator group · Level 2: independent research team · Level 3: public reproduction
Transparency Requirements
All materials publicly available before data collection: raw data · analysis code · word lists · control lists · statistical outputs · calibration results · power analysis report.