It's what us humans do. And that's why so much effort is
put into making
truly objective observations. That's very hard for humans
to do, if we are
able to do so at all.
Ron AC7AC
Amen. The whole purpose of the scientific method is to
try to eliminate
scientists' subjectivity from their observations. The
only way to tell
for sure if one speaker (for example) actually sounds
better than
another is to do a double-blind test. Neither the person
running the
test nor the subject knows which speaker is which until
after the test
is over. Unfortunately it is often not trivial to design
a test that
meets those conditions.
Nearly the worse way to do any comparison is to know what it
is and then compare.
For example? When I compared a G5RV on 80 meters with a
dipole and told people the G5RV was a G5RV, it lost nearly
all the time in reports. When I said the dipole was the G5RV
and the G5RV was the dipole, the actual dipole almost always
lost and the antenna that was really the G5RV almost always
was "better". When I did the test blind they were randomly
about equal, the same as a field strength reading and a
model of the antenna systems showed.
73 Tom
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