drmatt wrote: > Isn't that what "prove" means? > Proving is not what science does.
Prove = your word. Good science is based on gathering evidence and forming hypothesis that are based on it. > > Beyond any doubt? > Everything is at least a little doubtful. Ever hear of skepticism? > > And if there is no test that proves that for all people for all > circumstances there is no real audible difference between two components > then where did I go wrong? > You went wrong long ago. There is no need to prove that that for all people, for all circumstances there is no real audible difference between two components. First off, "Proof" is not what science does. What science does is gather evidence, formulate hypotheses that may explain the evidence, and then test the explanations by gathering more evidence. The nature of real world experiments that if you perform enough observations, at least a little contrary evidence will be gathered. That contrary evidence may the consequences of errors, and part of the analysis of experiment evidence is figuring out whether the contrary evidence is simply due to the usual random errors, or if they represent some real weakness in the hypothesis being tested. > > I didn't say your statement was wrong, just pointing out your caveat > that proving things for "reasonable people" (though I take exception to > your use of the word reasonable implying that those who don't agree with > you aren't being reasonable... ;) ) implies that it's a statistical > probability not absolute truth. Is that a fair reading of your comment? As usual you have made up yet another false claim, and attributed it to me. I never said that everybody who disagrees with me is unreasonable. There was no use of the word reasonable implying that those who don't agree with me aren't being reasonable. It is all a figment of your imagination it seems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105572 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
