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RE: Subjectivity is a construct, as well

Everything I am talking about is mainstream thought among the scholars and pros. Certainly not mysticism and obfuscation, but apparently you WILL have to read a few books to catch up.

Philosophy defines the knowledge conditions of inquiry. It is definitely not flaky hogwash. Have you ever actually studied philosophy of the sciences?

Listen carefully...double blind testing is B-O-G-U-S. My learned, professional opinion backed with reams of published material and
13 years at least studying these things intently in very serious schools. I am summarizing here because otherwise it would get too boring for non-specialists, but otherwise I'd say this stuff in front of any senior professor. I can hang with anybody in the field and I'm ahead of the majority of them.

What exactly are your physics credentials again? Have you ever taken a course on social science research methods? Do you have any idea what the assumptions and implications of your fave "double blind" research design really are? I don't think so, otherwise you would not view my critiques as mysticism.

If you are a truly educated and thoughtful individual, you would understand the relevance of what I am saying and respond to the challenges instead of reiterating the objectivist thug call for blind testing to prove to you that what other people know they heard is "valid" on your terms.

Nobody is gonna do that for you, dude. Especially me!

Get off your duff and do the work yourself!

Actually, I already participated in a blind test with silver vs, copper transformers. I told you all about the results. I can't think of a group that knows more about audio than the people who were in that room. Everybody heard it. Everybody noticed the difference.

WHY don't you accept that? It is almost exactly what you are demanding.

I am willing to do another session for the record but you pay all expenses and my usual fee. Down with that? Probably not, right?

It might be cheaper to buy some silver and listen. Buy some AudioNote litz wire and measure and blind test it if that is your thing.. A meter is enough. I predict you will hear it but you will NOT be able to measure it.

If you don't like it, sell it on ebay. Cheap education. And you will still have some money left over for books. I suggest reading John Searle on epistemological subjectivity vs epistemological objectivity and the relevance of the distinction for the discussion at hand.

Maybe it is even on Google Books for free.

This call for scientific evidence is nothing but a cheap tactic to shut down discussions you don't like. Seen it a hundred times.

Y'all think it is foolproof but it is simply fool.

At a certain point, the burden of your personal education shifts back to you.

I just spent several years in a second graduate program in historical anthropology and archaeology at age 50, at significant opportunity cost to myself. I had a 3.8+ average in a school famed for a lack of grade inflation. I am dead serious about this material and I did and do the work.

Stop learning and growing and you might as well be dead, that is what I think.

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

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



Edits: 09/04/12 09/04/12

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