In Reply to: RE: It isn't just the "nedical gold standard. It's the scientific gold standard posted by geoffkait on November 24, 2016 at 17:38:14:
"The main problem with blind tests is this: negative results mean nothing."
First of all, there is no such thing as negative or positive results. There are simply results. The we can apply a statistical analysis to those results to get probabilities of what was and was not being detected by the testee in that particular test.
"You cannot generalize and say this device doesn't work. In that regard blind test is jus lie any test.."
A propper analysis of a single dbt abx test will not offer such a conclusion. Were someone to draw such a conclusion from a dbt they would be making a poor analysis of the results. But making a poor analysis of the results does not make a dbt just like any test.
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- RE: It isn't just the "nedical gold standard. It's the scientific gold standard - Analog Scott 17:25:45 11/25/16 (0)