QUOTE (kstuart @ Nov 12 2012, 22:19) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (Garf @ Nov 12 2012, 13:28) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The philosophy of the forum is that in order for any discussion (about audio quality, but you can see it broader) to have any use, it should refer to things that are objectively measurable ...
Anyone who is actually involved in testing or measurement professionally (raises hand) knows how easy it is to get wrong results. And there is no detached "Objective" entity available to tell us when we have screwed up the measurement.
It's called reproducing the experiment.
And yes, there's a bias in science to have experiments perform the "expected" outcome. Hence the importance of documenting the process fully and correctly so the measurement and experiment can be properly repeated. And not being afraid of reporting negative results.
You'll find that in most cases where multiple researchers went astray, it usually involved the above.
I don't see how you go from "it's possible to fuck up a measurement" to "objective measurement don't exist hence no point in striving towards it". You're claiming science doesn't work. Scientists occasionally cock up, but the process works for sure.