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In Reply to: Don't be too hard on them� posted by David Aiken on November 17, 2002 at 23:11:21:

Your first sentence:
If you hear something on a sighted test and you can't distinguish it reliably on a blind test, you're in a very interesting position. How do you explain it to yourself?
Why do you have to explain it? Explaining it is when one gets into trouble.
If you like it, it's all about satisfaction. Be satisfied. Life is too short.
When you have to do science it's different, but most of us don't do science for our home listening satisfaction, I think.
Do we? I doubt it.
JJ - Philalethist and Annoyer of Bullies

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I probably would if it happened to me� - David Aiken 12:21:07 11/18/02 (2)
I think it would be rather disconceting to find that you couldn't reliably pick something in a test which you thought was extremely audible under what you regarded as "normal" conditions. That would definitely give me an itch I'd want to scratch, at least for a while.
You're right about satisfaction and the brevity of life, however. I'm sure I could find satisfaction with something :-)
David Aiken
- Re: I probably would if it happened to me� - Ted Smith 14:35:39 11/18/02 (1)
  Howdy
  Doesn't it depend on the test?
  My tendency is to suspect the test, I've seen extremely few well set up tests and very many flawed ones with unsupportable extrapolations.
  Assuming that the testee is confused, disingenuous or self deluded and assuming the test is flawed or misinterpreted are both similar real possibilities until we get concrete about a specific test... Otherwise we are just discussing how many angels fit on the head of a pin.
  -Ted
  - Of course, but� - David Aiken 23:59:00 11/18/02 (0)
    it could shake up my confidence in my own infallibility. I usually recover from that by pointing out to anyone who has observed it that I really am God and infallible, and that I only make mistakes deliberately so that people won't catch on. Lately however, the scepticism with which this explanation is usually greeted has been eroding my confidence and I think my wife is slipping some sort of medication into my morning coffee as well. I also think I overhear her and our son talking about asylums occasionally. I haven't the heart to tell her I frequent one regularly or to discuss what goes on here with her. :-)
    David Aiken

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