Personal Signature

Personal signature refers to the unique expressive pattern that an individual displays over the course of months or years. Although we all vary in our expressivity from moment to moment, all individuals have a personal signature that is unvarying in its holistic manifestation when viewed in the broadest timespans. Identifying the psychological connections between those who share parts or all of their personal signature, is the focus of vultology.

Identification

Vultological classification is performed by identifying a person's signature, as may manifest across months, but within a much more limited window of time ranging from minutes to hours. This is possible due to the redundant nature of personal signatures, where a person's expressions begin to repeat until ~99% of their expressive range is eventually mapped. The amount of time needed to observe a person, before all their expressions begin to repeat, varies from person to person, but is estimated to be predictable with approximately 1-4 hours of footage in different settings. In the ideal sense, identification of a person's signature would involve the monitoring and examination of the individual across weeks, and in all manner of activities. However, given practical constraints, a vultologist aims to reduce the amount of time needed to identify a person's signature as low as possible, while not sacrificing accuracy.

Vultology Practice

To maximize the efficiency of a visual analysis, cognitively relevant footage is most useful. This includes conversations where two subjects are called to use language, create concepts, explore ideas, recall details and brainstorm. This allows for cognitive abstraction to take place, wherein the vestigial effects of cognition manifest a specific vultology. With perfect use, and given a sample of high quality, the Codifier 3.0 can approximate vultological classification at roughly ~90% accuracy within approximately 20 minutes of proper footage. The accuracy increases to ~95% with an hour of footage, and begins to experience diminishing returns with future footage. Identification of type is theoretically possible within seconds or a few minutes, but it is generally not advisable to do so, given the odds of mistypings increase proportional to the lack of footage available.

Twin Shades

The more similar two people's vultologies are, the more similar their psychologies are speculated to be.

Following the core principle of vultology, stated above, an individual possessing an identical personal signature to one's own would be the most likely candidate to share our psychology in the highest amount of resolution, beyond even the sixteen types and including additional mental subtleties. When two people are identified which share near or all of their personal signature, these individuals are referred to as twin shades of each other. Twin shades, even if biologically unrelated, are speculated to be almost as similar to each other as a pair of identical twins raised apart.