garym;684663 Wrote: > Without speaking to what you've done (or not, because I don't know the > formality of your personal testing), but speaking more generally to > things I see at this forum, most of the "experimentation" reported here > is not actually an experiment that leads to learning new things that may > be generalizable to any other party. Most of what I see reported is from > a "sighted" comparison where the person conducting the "experiment" (who > is also the subject in the "experiment") knows in advance of any > comparison which stimulus is being heard. This may be fun, it's > harmless and doesn't hurt anyone, and I have no problems with folks > doing it and even reporting their personal nonscientific observations. > But this sort of stuff is certainly not an experiment.
In scientific terminology, the activities you've described above are called 'fishing for results'. It's a legitimate strategy in scientific circles, because by doing even a random set of repeated trial-and-error activities, one may stumble upon empirically valid set of data. After that, one is advised to devise a more sober set of proper experimental methodology, which is what the previous poster was referring to. -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91322 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
