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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

Jaybee, your question makes no sense to me.

1. To me, 'scientific" means rigorously tested.  So if I give the exact same command to my sub under different circumstances (in English/in Spanish, yelled at her/whispered to her, when she's sucking me/getting spanked by me, etc.) , and note the responsiveness to each, THAT'S scientific.  And I'd repeat the experiments, especially the spanking/sucking ones, to reduce individual outcome's effects.

2. Note that you are measuring different things for each side of the kneel.  For the D type, you want to measure communication to the s type.  For the s type, you want to measure carrying out those commands, not effectiveness in receiving them.  The two sets of results will not be correlatable with each other.

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M/S 1 - Slave serves Master without active thought;

M/S 2 - Slave serves Master almost without active thought, but must propose one new way to please him every week;

M/S 3 - as above, but Master also conducts monthly reviews of Slave suggestions;

M/s 4 - as above, but Slave makes the suggestion that review are held fortnightly for swifter improvements;

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

For the s type, you want to measure carrying out those commands

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ORIGINAL: windchymes

Since I'm a medical lab tech by trade, I take his blood once a week and check that his endorphin levels remain at a consistently high level.

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

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ORIGINAL: windchymes

Since I'm a medical lab tech by trade, I take his blood once a week and check that his endorphin levels remain at a consistently high level.

I wubs this answer. 

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M/S 1 - Slave serves Master without active thought;
M/S 2 - Slave serves Master almost without active thought, but must propose one new way to please him every week;
M/S 3 - as above, but Master also conducts monthly reviews of Slave suggestions;
M/s 4 - as above, but Slave makes the suggestion that review are held fortnightly for swifter improvements;

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ORIGINAL: Jaybeee

Or if you are a Master, how meticulously do you convey your needs and desires to your slave(s)?

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ORIGINAL: WolfyMontgomery

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M/S 1 - Slave serves Master without active thought;
M/S 2 - Slave serves Master almost without active thought, but must propose one new way to please him every week;
M/S 3 - as above, but Master also conducts monthly reviews of Slave suggestions;
M/s 4 - as above, but Slave makes the suggestion that review are held fortnightly for swifter improvements;

To me, this seems a bit more business like than scientific. Do you think that's the term you were going for? Schedules, plans, weekly or monthly reviews and whatnot are all very business like rather than scientific. Science is about theories and testing those theories to prove them and whatnot, trial and error, while you're thinking of something established and very formal.

As for Master and me, it's one of those in the mood things. There is no "must propose a new way to please him every week", but we're both active in thinking of new ways to live and for me to serve him, so there IS active thought. But the structure that we have is merely "He is Master, I am slave - he says, I do." There isn't any plans for assessing the value of said slave, no monthly reviews on whether I'm servicing him well enough, it's very much an in the moment thing. But that doesn't mean that there isn't structure there, it's just very.. accute? Localized? Simple? Yeah, simple. There, strong, but simple and easy to understand.

Active thought is something that is good for any relationship, it often isn't something you plan, but just something you do. And you must think - is that thought really active if it is scheduled on a weekly basis?

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ORIGINAL: Jaybeee

the "scientific" part, which to me confers an air of complexity, an erudite (isn't it wonderful how closely that word resembles "erotic"??!??!) savvy of pleasing the Master.

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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

The new thing to amuse him/titillate him/etc a week only works when you're brand new. After a few months you will have so many rules and things that must be done that you won't be able to get anything accomplished. It says a great deal about the OP that he's so focused on the brand new beginning of a relationship and does not look forward to having a long term, mutually satisfying one.

I'm curious if he's ever actually had a relationship that lasted over six months and if so, how this worked out for real. Because by demanding new and different, he's set it up that he can't look forward to having any tried and true favorites. And that's just sad.