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Does it say ANYWHERE in the BASS article...

...that polarity reversal is audible ON MUSIC (to a 99% confidence limit or whatever)?

IT DOESN'T.

Lipshitz et al. couldn't show that at all.

Yet that is what JA claims, and that is where he is misleading and in error. And to try and claim like him that "on music" and "on material combining test tones and musical excerpts" are one and the same thing is obviously nothing but an attempt at plain old BS as I am sure you will agree. I'll post a separate note somewhere here describing exactly why this is so, maybe in reply to JA or bjh who seem most ignorant of the (statistical) meaning of the difference.

"...the ABX site is mostly irrelevant to the question of honesty in Atkinson's article, written years before the WWW was public..."

I'm not sure if you are saying that JA probably didn't have the data on the experiments that he was trying to publicly draw upon to bolster his own claims about the audibility of polarity? That would be either extremely sloppy or extremely cynical of him. The ABX site has no monopoly on this test data; it's just one of the many sources out there that have bothered to record the results for posterity. The details were obviously available from multiple sources, including the authors of whom JA writes most warmly, i.e., he could have always checked with them, too, if he felt unsure for some reason even after perusing all the written reports.

TL


Edits: 12/18/07
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