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RE: What might be a mistake to you could be a way of life for Atkinson, et al

I, for one, have to defend JA somewhat on this issue. I used to routinely perform blind tests, and less occasionally perform double-blind tests - simply to make sure I am not deluding myself from expectation bias.

It gets boring after a while, as I have never once had a sighted test result differ from a blind or double-blind test. In the end its just a waste of time for me.

For a magazine with at least a 30% subscriber "churn" rate, it would probably make sense to run a blined or double-blind test at least once a year so that new subscribers could have more faith in the reviewer's capabilities.

I recall Fremer (in particular) used to often mention how he would routinely score 5/5 correct in double-blind tests conducted by others.

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