adamslim;180516 Wrote: > > I realise that it is not scientific, but the chocolate vs strawberry > yoghurt story given earlier indicates some limits to a scientific > method of testing. I struggle to find a solution that satisfies me > rationally, so am happy just to stick with something that just sounds > great and stop worrying about it :) >
Hmmm - I think the yoghurt story illustrates precisely the opposite point... as Eric Carroll said earlier, it's amazing how the two sides in this discussion can draw completely different conclusions from the same piece of evidence! To me, what that (along with thousands of other such examples) shows is that human perception is very strongly influenced by expectation, and furthermore that we will go to great lengths to provide elaborate explanations for our incorrect impressions (that last part is even more remarkable, and there's lots of data on it). Therefore, I would say, the only way to use perception reliably is to eliminate the influence of expectation and/or bias in some way - if we don't our perceptions are extremely untrustworthy, almost no matter how confident we are in them. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32352 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
