In Reply to: Some explanations. posted by Romy the Cat on August 11, 2002 at 08:01:08:
Not to defend the people you're complaining about (it's safe to say that I've also dealt with people whose way of articulating a particular percieved effect wasn't, shall we say, consistant, that in very friendly, non-confrontational circumstqances), but there is an additional problem that I've observed.One person's 'wide' is another person's 'vague', is another person's 'deep' and do on. The physical causes of this are (quite seriously) differences in head shape, size, pinna shape and size, and so on.
This is also true for many other observed effects, the above is purely an example.
So, it's safe to say that even if someone is consistant and reliable, you may not agree, based on both physical and psychological (i.e. preference-related, I don't mean pathological!) reasons.
That's one reason why different people like different reviewers, I suspect. I don't have concrete evidence for that one, though.
JJ
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