opaqueice;151514 Wrote: > > I wonder if there's a skill there - probably psychologists would call > it metacognition - of learning to recognize when things really are > there versus when they might be your brain fooling you. If you've ever > messed around with, say, foobar with the ABXY plugin, at least if you're > like me you'll find that many times you think there's a clear > difference, even an obvious one, and then miserably fail to identify it > on a blind test. After a few such failures you become considerably more > skeptical about this. > > So it would be quite interesting to see if people can learn to be > skeptical to the right degree, so that they can determine when to trust > their perceptions and when not. Actually I think all of us have a lot > to learn from this - it's pretty humbling to discover how bad we are at > judging reality, and knowing that such errors are common is crucial in > just about every aspect of life. >
It seems some people are inherently better at recognizing reality than others, and those who aren't, are not very good at learning to do so. See http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf TD -- tyler_durden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29025 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
