ncarver;610668 Wrote: > Hah! Have you subjected your roasted beans to double blind taste tests > to scientifically prove they taste better? If not, you are obviously > just fooling yourself about their superiority! :) > > Along a similar vein...I got a charcoal grill again last summer after > many years with gas only, and my wife and I were ecstatic about how > much better burgers and steaks were on the charcoal grill...until I > read that blind taste tests have "proven" that for meats cooked for as > short a time as those, people cannot distinguish gas vs. charcoal > grilling! Really? Is that people with no sense of taste?? (Like > those "tin ears" that can't hear differences in speaker cables?) I had > gas-grilled burgers for the first time in several months recently > because I didn't want to spend much time out in the cold, and I didn't > finish mine because it was so tasteless, relative speaking. But of > course this is all in my head--a blind test has proven it must be!! > (Actually for me this represents yet another reason to be skeptical > about many blind testing protocols and whether the results of such > tests can be used to draw valid generalizations or not.)
Unsighted tests can be used on a personal level to draw your own conclusions based on your own tastes and preferences. There's no need to rely on third party tests. Darren -- darrenyeats http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A3H57URKQB8AQO/ref=cm_pdp_content_listmania/203-7606506-5721503. SB3, SB Touch SqueezeControl for Android ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85590 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
