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RE: Read his thesis why don't you?

I saw this back in the day but I was less critical in my thinking back then so I will look afresh. Skimming some of it yesterday I was struck by how this is a Masters thesis from an EE department? Shouldn't psychologists be doing this work and, presumably hearing psychologists did not peer review it? None of the hearing data underpinning this work was created by him, and he goes from sweeping statement to sweeping statement. In my small perusal of this subject I found there were no sweeping statements but a lot of small steps and each one had some data that countered the main conclusion. He used the phrase 'all analog chain' at one point so we should be on guard as confirmation bias is a real thing in research. And when he talks of subjective results they are his and not unsighted panel results. This is more reviewer than researcher. Anyway, I shall read more and more thoroughly while staying aware of my own conformational bias that if the brain subtracts distortion from signals entering the ear how do we tell the difference between instruments and voices that get their character through distortion?

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