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"Arny Krueger" <arnyk@hotpop.com> wrote in message 
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> "Clyde Slick" <YustabeSlim@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:42d501e0$1_1@spool9-east.superfeed.net
>
>> Fist of all,
>
> Art gratuiously introduces a OT discussion of something
> involving a fist. What might that be?
>
>> For the purposes of my purchase decisions,
>> any test results derived from other subjects
>> are completely irrelevant to my decision.
>
> This only makes sense if Art's hearing or Art's listening
> environment is so atypical that no other person's hearing or
> listening environment would be relevant. IOW, it suggests
> that Art's hearing has become vastly degraded due to his age
> and personal activities, and that his home audio system is
> full of masking noises and distortions.
>
>> I could not care less what the unknown masses do or do not
> hear.
>
> Note that Art can't comprehend of any other individual
> having the same serious hearing problems that he has.
>
>> Now, as far as DBT and its removal of expectation effects,
>> for the purposes of audio purchase decisions, a
>> test subject would tend to have fairly strong
> preconceptions
>> about whether there might be inherent differences
>> between two items.
>
> Agreed - given that retail outlets and manufacturer's have
> strong economic incentives to give people favorable
> preconceptions about the products they sell.
>
>> AS far as manufacturer's using DBT in support of
>> parts or decsign decisions, the test subjets
>> are likely to have minimal preconcptions
>> over whatever is being tested.
>
> At last Art correctly perceives that one of the benefits of
> DBTs is that they can help identify and reduce or elminate
> the effects of preconceptions.
>

That is not what I said. Not at all. 



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