A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm

Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by jeffdavis on Friday November 24, 2017 @01:47PM (#15772353)

I can taste the difference.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by adrianN on Friday November 24, 2017 @02:06PM (#15772455)

Did you do a double blind study?

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by nitrogen on Friday November 24, 2017 @02:11PM (#15772482)

You don't have to blind a study when the effect size is big enough (the classic example is the ridiculousness of a double-blind test of the use of parachutes). See my other comment for how easily egg flavor can be altered.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by slavik81 on Friday November 24, 2017 @04:49PM (#15773205)

He's right to be distrustful. People are terrible at taste tests. If you ask people how something tastes, they will tend to tell you what they think they're expected to taste rather than what they actually do.

There's plenty of scientific evidence for this based on wine studies[1], but on a personal level, the tongue map myth[2] is the one that gets me. It was taught in science class as true, and we did (non-blind) experiments to measure the effect, but we failed to conclude the effect didn't exist.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_wine_tasting [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_map

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by nitrogen on Friday November 24, 2017 @06:16PM (#15773542)

People are terrible at taste tests.

True, but after being served backyard vs. store eggs without being told which is which, or which feed type was in use, or that anything had changed at all, and still noticing a difference, I am confident that it is possible for the flavor of eggs to vary.

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