DCtoDaylight;290522 Wrote: > Sorry... but you're wrong, you can prove a positive. If a single person > can repeatably and correctly hear a difference, then you have proven a > positive.
Nope. If someone hears the difference correctly 10/10 times, you can reject the hypothesis that that person cannot hear the difference with 99.9% confidence. That's all. There is no such thing as proof in science, and there is no distinction between "positive" and "negative" statements in hypothesis testing. > To prove a negative you have to test everybody..... What I said in my post was accurate (although I added one word I forgot before): "What that study showed is that the hypothesis that any of the 500 or so people that took part could reliably hear the difference between 16/44.1 and hi-res on any of four hi-end systems used can be rejected with high confidence." -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45839 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
