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Should readers be tested for comprehension and gullibility skills?

...those who make a living claiming to hear what many cannot.

Don't worry, in the absence of such testing you are protected! Every major audio publication is signatory to the 1989 International Hirsch-Houck Convention. In a nutshell, this states: If you cannot hear it, you cannot read about it, even when what you cannot hear sounds the same. When reviewers write about what, for you, is consigned to silence, their words actually become invisible. In fact magazine racks contain entire audio publications you can't subscribe to, much less see. This is for your own good and is the true meaning of 'double blind tested reviews'.

By the way, could you please identify a few contemporary reviewers who claim "to hear what many cannot".

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  • Should readers be tested for comprehension and gullibility skills? - JTimothyA 20:24:00 03/21/07 (1)
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