opaqueice;179972 Wrote: > Well, we had this debate before. You can find it if you search the > forum - there is no such logical distinction (a statement is equal to > the negation of its negation, so obviously you can't classify > statements as positive or negative). Sometimes the negation of some > statement is much more difficult to prove, such as your example here; > sometimes it's the other way around. > > In any case, for blind testing, what is being tested is whether or not > the subject can actually hear a difference. A "positive" result > provides evidence that s/he can, a "negative" result that s/he can't. > That's it; the "negative" result is just as meaningful and just as > useful.
I haven't classified statements as positive or negative. We are talking about the outcome of an experiment. Either the experiment gives the expected result, and we have a positive result, or we have a negative outcome. I.e: What the experiment was designed to prove was not proven in this particular experiment. -- P Floding No, I didn't ABX it. And I won't even if you ask me. (Especially not if you ask me.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32352 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
