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RE: Actually, you're both wrong about this.

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In Reply to: RE: Actually, you're both wrong about this. posted by Pat D on June 20, 2008 at 16:14:57

By "test" I meant the entire experimental process, and that includes the experimental design, the actual testing and the analysis. I thought that was clear from the context. Sorry if it wasn't.

When a forced choice succeeds by statistically significant (and superficially lucky) answers it may well be that a portion of the subconscious mind is being accessed by the test procedure. However, unless one believes that forced choices have access to the entire subconscious mind, then one can not conclude from a failed forced choice test that no portion of the subject's mind was influenced by a sound. And if in fact any portion of a subject's mind was influenced by a sound then it is incorrect to say that the subject did not hear the sound. And it is also incorrect to conclude that the presence or absence of the sound could not affect the subject's musical enjoyment.

Tony Lauck

"Perception, inference and authority are the valid sources of knowledge" - P.R. Sarkar

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RE: Actually, you're both wrong about this. - Pat D 20:02:52 06/20/08 (1)
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