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RE: Ignore the doubters!

In pharmaceutical testing, there is an empirical result to use as a measure of efficacy. You compare the treatment with observed measurable results.

In audio there is no such thing. The emprical result is the response of the human on the test form or the raising of the hand when a difference is heard. The datum point is the raised hand. You can't observe hearing, only the behavior of the listeners. That is why this largely discredited paradigm is called "Behavioral" research.

Many uncontrolled factors go into that hand raising. There is no direct empirical or logical link, hence it is BAD SCIENCE.

The public face of Behavioral social science was BF Skinner, and before that Pavlov of salivating dog fame. These guys wanted to study psychology and people with psychologies in a lab, like lab rats. The paradigm was a move to extend logical empiricism of physics into the arena of the human mind.

This can't work and, to me, it is a bit insulting to all humanity.


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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent -- Wittgenstein

Free your mind and your ass will follow -- Parliament/Funkadelic


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