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In Reply to: Your opinion is... posted by Jon Risch on April 22, 2003 at 10:18:49:
You run a lousy test and come up with a null, it has absolutely no meaning whatsoever. None.Right, no problem there. This, of course, also applies to a lousy test that comes up with a positive as well, which is the case for all in-home, sighted testing by audiophiles with new cables. It may not be meaningless for the audiophile but it is certainly meaningless in discussions where we are endeavouring to find the truth about cables. Now, what about an excellent test that comes up with a null? See what I have to say about that later on.
There have been popular press articles that conducted blind listening tests on audio cables that had positive outcomes, such as Home Theater and Hi-Fi News.
Besides the fact that the conductors of the test have a conflict of interest, have any of these tests been published with enough detail that they may be duplicated? If not, then refer to para 1.
Older less refined tests do not compare to more modren and more spohisticated tests.
That's your opinion. And just where are the methodology and results of these "more modern and sophisiticated tests" published?
Tests with positive results tend to overshadow tests with nulls, since the positive results actually have a certain statistical meaning, while the nulls have no meaning at all.
This is a patently false statement. A well conducted test with a null result most certainly does have some meaning. A null result has implications which are not meaningless. I hope I don't need to go into detail about this, it should be accepted as fact.
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Follow Ups
- More common ground... - Monstrous Mike 04/22/0310:56:16 04/22/03 (4)
- Besides the fact that the conductors of the test have a conflict of interest.... - Rod M 16:20:34 04/22/03 (3)
- Oh really? Name one conductor and state his conflict of interest - BassNut 10:31:23 04/23/03 (0)
- Re: Besides the fact that the conductors of the test have a conflict of interest.... - Steve Eddy 19:47:32 04/22/03 (0)
- A cold day in hell... - Monstrous Mike 18:15:22 04/22/03 (0)
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