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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by iconosynclast on Monday March 13, 2023 @12:51PM (#35138441)
Wine is interesting because, while there is definitely some pretentious nonsense going on, the other extreme is hilarious as well. There are people out there insisting that it's impossible to differentiate red from white wine by blind taste test.
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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by QuercusMax on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:16PM (#35138917)
...except that there have been studies that show exactly that: https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infam...
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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by codewarrior128 on Monday March 13, 2023 @05:29PM (#35143056)
Interesting, but one has to ask, were they testing the hypothesis or the participants? The participants were describes as both "students" and a "panel of experts".
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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by roelschroeven on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:08AM (#35150180)
"54 oenology (wine science) students". Them studying wine science is presumably what makes them experts.
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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by iconosynclast on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @11:42PM (#35163559)
except the study does not test for that. it somewhat interestingly shows that distinct vocabulary gets used for reds and whites once that context is established by a visual cue. that doesn't however mean no systematic difference between reds and whites can be detected.
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