jeffmeh;191342 Wrote: > Is that not the gist of what I said? All a negative test indicates is > that the subject could not discern an audible difference in that test. > To make a broader general conclusion would be incorrect, but to dismiss > this outcome as meaningless would also be incorrect.
And it should also be pointed out that a "positive" result is just as dangerous to generalize. A positive result provides some level of confidence in the assertion that the subject could hear a difference - but this could, among many possibilities, be due to incorrectly matched volumes, a clicking sound during switching, or to a more interesting audible difference between the sources. Statements like P Floding Wrote: > > Let's just stress that a negative AB or ABX means very little. > Certainly proves nothing in the general sense. are empty. Nothing proves anything "in the general sense" - all results, both positive and negative, help us build a set of hypotheses and narrow in on the correct ones, but in no case can we prove them beyond any doubt. That's just the way it goes - most people get past the stage of demanding absolute proof at a pretty young age - or become mathematicians :-). -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33986 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
