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RE: Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and WAV files

The issue isn't whether a test is blind or not. The issue is that a test is being performed and that implies that the test must be scientific if the results are to have scientific validity, rather than amusement value.

There are psychological issues, e.g. training, boredom, fatigue. There are mathematical issues, e.g. statistical power, errors of type I and type II, etc. There is no voodoo. It's more about difficulty and practical considerations such as experimental set up, labor and equipment costs, etc... For those philosophically inclined there are issues of epistemology and causality. For neuroscientists and consciousness researchers there are additional issues. For mathematicians and engineers a good place to start is to investigate what is called "signal detection theory".

These discussions used to be common on Prophead. Lately that asylum has been moribund.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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