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RE: Ignore the doubters!

There is no repeatibily in this kind of research. The context, which modern social scientists will identify as the primary influence on meaning and perception, will be different every time.

Music, where in the song a switch is made, how cold is the room, did the guys wife bitch at him before he left about leaving records on the flow, how much does he hate the Rebecca Pidgeon song they keep playing, etc etc.

Even if nothing is changed, do the test a few times over and there is learning involved. people learn how to do the test, hence things are different.

The results may be repeatable but the test conditions are not!

In audio testing, we have a situation where all variables are not identified and controlled for. And some of them change each time.

Consequently, there are no grounds to extend the results beyond the unique conditions of a particular test, and we don't even fully understand the conditions in that unique example.

This is BAD SCIENCE. It should not be science and it will never be.

A different research paradigm is required, one which recognizes the unique situation of listeners and listening. The results will not fit into the logical positivist concept of science, but they may have some actual reelvance. Open ended interviews maybe be one such methodology.

Treating people like billiard balls in a physics experiment does not work. Bad science.

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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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  • RE: Ignore the doubters! - Joe Roberts 06:14:19 09/22/15 (0)

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