|
Critic's Corner Discuss a review. Provide constructive feedback. Talk to the industry. |
|
|
|
Critic's Corner Discuss a review. Provide constructive feedback. Talk to the industry. |
|
In Reply to: RE: So, DBT audio judgement is more reliable than sighted? posted by John Atkinson on November 26, 2016 at 15:21:57:
"Blind testing as commonly practiced tends to produce false negatives (ie,
not finding a difference when one exists), whereas sighted testing tends
to produce false positives (identifying a difference when there isn't one).
The choice between these two imperfect scenarios is subjective."
I suppose this very much depends on what "commonly practiced" is refering to. I wouldn't have the data needed to even guess at what is "commonly practiced." If we are talking about what is commonly practiced by the fundamentalist objectivists in the form of ABX DBTs it would not surprise me at all that this is the case. I have yet to see any of these tests show that they did anything to either control same sound biases or calibrate the sensitivity of the test using known audible differences. But that just shows that these dorks are actually anti-science posers pretending to be all about science when they are really all about their ego driven agenda. OTOH if we are talking about real scientific research in human auditory perception that leads to peer reviewed published studies in actual medical and scientific journals I would suspect that the incidence of false nulls would be fairly low. And of course in the world of real science researchers know that this is a potential pitfall in any given test and treat the results and draw their conclusions with that in mind. Now if we are talking about the sort of blind auditions I personally do I don't think there would be many false nulls but they are a possibility. The thing is I don't bother testing for differences. I go straight to testing for preferences and most of the things I compare are not particularly contraversial as to whether or not they sound the same or different.
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Follow Ups
- RE: So, DBT audio judgement is more reliable than sighted? - Analog Scott 18:05:18 11/26/16 (0)
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2024, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
