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Holt? [message #54292 is a reply to message #54272] Thu, 19 May 2005 14:34 Go to previous message
Dean Kukral is currently offline  Dean Kukral
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I am not sure if it was the same thing, but there was a Stereophile (I think) article "about twenty years ago" describing a double-blind test that was put on at some audio show or convention. (It may have been Atkinson, not Holt.)

About 50 people participated. There were five tests. Two got all of them right. One of them was the author of the article, who was now convinced forever that he had a golden ear. The asshole did not ever stop to realize that pure chance would have made about two people get everything right. I am sure that for the rest of his life he has felt that he had license to pontificate on all topics because he had a golden ear.

That was one of the reasons that I quit subscribing to Stereophile, and have not taken it up for even just $10 per year.

I wonder if we are talking about the same thing. (No offense, but I doubt that Holt could score 19/20 when everyone else failed.)

 
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