TimeWaver Studies

What Shows Up in the Information Field

Four pilot studies, honestly examined

Can working in the information field be captured in numbers at all? TimeWaver tried — with four randomised studies on healthy people, standardised questionnaires and a control group. Here is what came out — and how to read the results.

Why studies at all?

In this field a lot is claimed and little is shown. That is exactly why it is unusual to find real studies here — with a clean design of the kind you also see in well-being research.

Honesty matters to me: these are pilot studies, run by TimeWaver itself, not by an independent university. They prove nothing conclusively. But they are a genuine first step — and their results are clear enough to be worth a look.

How it was measured

Each study ran for 14 days and split participants at random into two groups: one with analysis and harmonisation in the information field, a control group with analysis only. Before and after, everyone filled in the same recognised questionnaires:

  • WHO-5

    Well-being — an established questionnaire from the World Health Organization.

  • SOC-9

    Sense of coherence — how consistent and manageable one's own life feels.

  • MYMOP

    Self-named everyday burdens — here a lower value is the better one.

  • WEMWBS

    Mental well-being — additionally measured in the coaching study.

To describe how strong an effect is, research uses “Cohen's d”: from 0.5 it is called a medium, from 0.8 a large and from 1.0 a very large effect. Several of these studies reach values above 1.0 for well-being.

The results

Every bar shows the change after 14 days compared with the starting value. Teal = group with harmonisation, blue = control group (analysis only).

With harmonisationAnalysis only (control)

Meridian module

N = 275

Randomised · 14 days · with control group

Well-being (WHO-5)
+30 %
+9 %
Coherence (SOC-9)
+11 %
+5 %
Burdens (MYMOP)lower = better
-29 %
-14 %

Largest effect: Well-being: Cohen's d = 1.2 (very large)

Coherence module

N = 97

Randomised · 14 days · with control group

Well-being (WHO-5)
+39 %
+20 %
Coherence (SOC-9)
+10 %
+9 %
Burdens (MYMOP)lower = better
-32 %
-28 %

Largest effect: Well-being: Cohen's d = 1.39 (very large)

Database analysis

N = 151

Randomised · 14 days · with control group

Well-being (WHO-5)
+28 %
+13 %
Coherence (SOC-9)
+16 %
+2 %
Burdens (MYMOP)lower = better
-37 %
-18 %

Largest effect: Well-being: Cohen's d = 1.09 (very large)

The coaching study

Coaching module

N = 127

This study went a step further and compared four groups: full coaching with and without harmonisation, shortened coaching with and without harmonisation. That makes it possible to see what contributes what.

+47%closer to their own goals — the group with full coaching AND harmonisation after 14 days (goal attainment, GAL-MYMOP).

For general and mental well-being this group was clearly ahead too, with effect sizes up to Cohen's d ≈ 1.17 (very large).

The telling pattern: the combination of coaching and harmonisation worked more strongly than either part alone. Coaching sets the direction, working in the information field amplifies it.

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