Re:Blind-tested soloists unable to tell Stradivarius from mo...
by StavrosK on Thursday July 14, 2016 @12:10PM
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Yeah, I misread the 31/33 thing as a ratio, thanks for clarifying. Good breakdown of the rest of the article as well, it makes more sense the way you present it, the article was going back and forth between the tests a bit.
There were two tests, one to distinguish strad from modern, one to score which instrument musicians liked best. In the first, they didn't get 31 of 33 wrong, they got 33 wrong and 31 right, virtually a 50/50 split. In the preference test, modern violins placed first and second, with the top place substantially above the others, though the article doesn't give the full score breakdown.