It was probably a mistake on my part to mention medical testing, but those do not give simple "yes/no" results either. One looks at the preponderance of evidence in those situations in deciding how to proceed.
In the audiophile world however, one exception out of a hundred is more than adequate for an audiophile to announce themselves immune to the frailties that plague ordinary humans. Yes, audio testing is a complex affair since it necessarily involves the human brain. However, this much is fairly well established: the differences between things in sighted testing are more often than not accompanied by grand and glowing descriptions of those differences. When the same things are tested in a blind situation, those differences become much smaller and more subtle; sometimes the differences even disappear. Plus, an encyclopedia of apologetics has been written to explain why blind testing is inadequate for the special needs of those in the audio world. In short. audiophiles like science when it agrees with them, but they'll search to the ends of the earth for reasons to dismiss it when contrary evidence emerges. Seems pretty ordinarily human to me. -- mlsstl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82067 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
