Themis;353655 Wrote: 
> Not necessarily. Studies are made so that you can get only the answers
> that you are looking for.
> If he question was : "can you hear an audible difference ?" everybody
> will answer "no".

That's not how the SACD study was done.  You're not asked -if- you can
hear a difference - you're asked to identify X as A or B.

> And you can't ask for the question "did you get more pleasure" : it
> could make no sense because you can't quantify it (although you could
> have measured it with an EEG).

Why in the world not?  

Have you even read the article this thread is about?  That's -exactly-
what they did - they asked the listeners how they felt about various
aspects of the sound, and they got what they claim to be statistically
significant results.

> Very well then. I speak for myself : I'm just a IT engineer, although I
> have a degree of chemistry. But I don't consider myself as related
> enough with the study discussed. I'm not a medical scientist, and I'm
> not the only one. ;)

Statistics are statistics - it makes no difference at all where the
data came from.  The test they used (an ANOVA F-test) is absolutely
standard - only they used it incorrectly (as far as I can tell from the
detail they give).


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