jkeny wrote: > The purpose of a blind test is to eliminate as far as possible biases, > influences on our auditory perception - the main one being the cognitive > bias that is cited as being the result of knowing what we are testing. > If you think that you can do a blind test without having first isolated > & nailed down what you think are the specific differences between two > devices then I will put money on you to fail every time when subtle > differences are being tested for. Well gross differences are not usually > blind tested but rather the preference ranking for such gross > differences - again the sighted evaluation of such speakers is shown to > lead to a perception of larger differences than are found when blind > tested - The Harmon blind tests show this. > > Huh? It's jh901's claims (as this is what he is setting himself up for) > that are being tested here. And, if it's going to be used as some sort > of "proof" that jh901 can indeed differentiate between his silver cable > & some cheap copper one, then he will be asked to produce statistically > significant results which requires multiple tests - I believe 12 is the > minimum but perhaps 15 will be called for. But I don't expect that it > will ever get that far because anyone who knows how to do blind testing > of any rigour will know not to waste their time on this - sorry jh901 > > No doubt Arny will now contradict everything I've just said & confuse > you more :)
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