opaqueice;176390 Wrote: > But you see, there is a perfectly good hypothesis, backed by centuries > of scientific theory and experiment, that explains the result you > reported above. It's got nothing to do with audio or physics and > everything to do with psychology, but that doesn't detract at all from > its explanatory power. > > Suppose someone told you your music would sound better if you wired > $100 to his bank account. Would you feel compelled to try it before > passing judgement? > > There are always a large number of possible explanations for any > observation. The way we make progress is by investigating the most > plausible, meaning the simplest and most consistent with our knowledge. > If we tried to investigate every possible explanation, including those > ruled out by past experiments, we'd never get anywhere. > > You haven't presented any credible evidence that there's an effect > here. Please don't be offended, but the fact that you think you heard > something isn't very meaningful (because it can be explained by > psychology in a way that's extremely well-documented and established as > a fact). If on the other hand you presented some hard evidence, like a > double-blind test result or a measurement, the psychological > explanation would no longer be adequate and the claim would be taken > more seriously. Until then, quite frankly it would be a waste of time > for anyone to investigate.
"The way we make progress is by investigating the most plausible" Well, Dynamite was "invented" by mistake. I'm sure there are thousands of accidental discoveries. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
