Extract from Validation document:

Statement of Experiment:

Assertion: Shadowmatch asserts that by having an individual complete a list of tasks (in the format of a questionnaire based worksheet) Shadowmatch can discriminate the level or degree to which habits are embedded in the behaviour of an individual as per a set of defined behaviour categories.

The requirement is to design an experiment by means of which the above assertion can be tested with a view towards validation. Our experiment consists of the following:

1. Inviting eight ‘experts’ to complete a total of 36 Shadowmatch worksheets profiling 18 separate behaviour categories such that 18 result in a score of 70 or more (demonstrating the presence of a habit imbedded in the behaviour of an individual) and such that 18 result in a score of 10 or less (demonstrating the absence of a habit embedded in the behaviour of the individual).
2. The eight experts were not told in advance which behaviour pattern they would profile. Once seated, each was provided with access codes to complete a Shadowmatch worksheet and each was randomly assigned a separate behaviour category with a definition of that behaviour category.
3. For each behaviour category, an expert was tasked to complete two Shadowmatch worksheets.
1. One: complete a worksheet, consistently selecting for each question the answer that they (the tasked expert) felt best described behaviour that was consistent with the behaviour definition supplied, and,
2. Two: complete another worksheet, consistently selecting for each question the answer they felt was most anti / contra the behaviour as per the behaviour definition.