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[Tom W8JI]

>> It's what us humans do. And that's why so much effort is 
>> put into making
>> truly objective observations. That's very hard for humans 
>> to do, if we are
>> able to do so at all.
>>
>> Ron AC7AC
>
> Amen.  The whole purpose of the scientific method is to 
> try to eliminate
> scientists' subjectivity from their observations.  The 
> only way to tell
> for sure if one speaker (for example) actually sounds 
> better than
> another is to do a double-blind test.  Neither the person 
> running the
> test nor the subject knows which speaker is which until 
> after the test
> is over.  Unfortunately it is often not trivial to design 
> a test that
> meets those conditions.

Nearly the worse way to do any comparison is to know what it 
is and then compare.

For example? When I compared a G5RV on 80 meters with a 
dipole and told people the G5RV was a G5RV, it lost nearly 
all the time in reports. When I said the dipole was the G5RV 
and the G5RV was the dipole, the actual dipole almost always 
lost and the antenna that was really the G5RV almost always 
was "better". When I did the test blind they were randomly 
about equal, the same as a field strength reading and a 
model of the antenna systems showed.

73 Tom