MICROCALIBRATION The diagram below represents our current understanding of microcalibration:
Any social cue can be interpreted as either an IOI, IOD, DHV, DLV, compliance test, or some combination.
If the target gives you an IOD, you must return with an IOD. If she is giving you IOIs, then start compliance testing her. If she is hooking, you must reward her unpredictably with IOIs and IODs.
To preserve her comfort levels, calibrate your IOIs with IOD calibrators and calibrate your IODs with IOI calibrators.
Escalation is not merely a matter of offering value and her
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accepting it. It is also a matter of testing for compliance and her allowing it. In microcalibration, we blur the lines between a value offering and a compliance test.
In the diagram you see that if you IOD, and she IODs in response, you come back with an IOI!
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If she is not hooking, for example after a roll-off, wait for a timeout period to see if she will re-initiate, and then come back and make another value offering (calibrating it with an IOD of course.)34
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