Could you point to that? Graves basically didn’t leave any data afaict and Beck and Cowan’s data also seems to have disappeared after National Values Center shut down (and sadly both Beck and Cowan are no longer with us Beck having passed away in 2022).
BTW we have an thread on the forum on this (x-posted from thread on old forum)
… where the excellent John Oliver pointed me to this excellent summary https://hellametamodernism.com/but-the-data/ which has this interesting excerpt
But there’s one big problem: The data is long gone.
Wait… no data?
For whatever reason, towards the end of his life Graves threw out all but a few example essays, along with any notes from his judges that may have existed. It’s possible that some of the material is stuffed in a box in an archive somewhere at Union College, but unless and until someone finds it, that doesn’t do us much good.
There’s no real doubt that the data existed, as a number of people saw it, and Graves published a peer-reviewed paper outlining the theory based on it, and presented additional collated results at some mainstream conferences. But no one analyzed it independently in sufficient detail to verify whether the same theory would emerge for them, either by re-judging the essays or by examining the output of the original judges.
The other possible source of data would be from Spiral Dynamics practitioners, but while I have heard some statistics from such data, I am not aware of any publication of a sufficiently large data set along with the tools and methodology used to produce it in sufficient detail to allow for independent verification. [emphasis added]
PS: this is probably worthy of forking to its own topic.