Why are digital streaming equipment manufacturers refusing to answer me?
Please tell me how matching is different than identification. And please see above for a discussion of why the brain is better at determining preference than identification. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NQGcNPQAAAAJ&hl=en |
Again, you obviously don’t understand ABX testing which is NOT about absolute identification, i.e. picking out the 98 Bordeaux from the 96 and the 99, it’s about having 3 bottles, two 98, and one 96 and being able to tell the two 98 are the same. If you can’t tell a 96 and 98 apart then you don’t actually prefer one over the other. ABx increases the statistical reliability of an AB test. ABx testing IS a preference test essentially as it requires no absolute identification. |
It's about saying a = x. That is an identification judgment. You don't have to believe me, but the brain is worse at that than at determining preference. They have studies with patients who have zero long term memory. Every day they fail an X test by failing to identify people with whom they've interacted with repeatedly. Nonetheless, they form adaptive preferences for these individuals based on whether those past interactions have been positive or negative. That is because the area of the brain responsible for preference is different (and more basic & important) than the area responsive for identification. |
And just to highlight. With those memory patients, the preference test is highly reliable (defined in testing science as a consistent, repeatable judgment). Their performance on the identification test is completely unreliability (i.e., no different than chance). You do not need to be able to say x = a to make a reliable preference judgment. I suspect if you instructed people to base their identification judgments in an abx solely on preference they'd do significantly better. |
Your example is an absolute identification test. As noted this is not applicable to the discussion. You seem to be missing the point. If you have AB and X. And have a definite "preference" for A, then when x=A, that preference should replicate. You try wine A and B side by side. You claim you prefer A to B. Now I give you wine X. Do you claim you prefer it to wine B? If so, it must be A right? What if it is actually B? That means your "preference" was random.
Actually what results in better ability is training in the characteristics of differences. The natural tendency is to rely on "preference", which is very fickle. Nonetheless, they form adaptive preferences for these individuals based on whether those past interactions have been positive or negative. Which would require learned neural patterns. This is not related to directly to ABx and more related to why blind testing is necessary to ensure the learned neural patterns for looks are removed from sonic decisions. However as applied to ABx, those learned neural patterns should trigger the same for A and for A=x, as opposed to B. It is also why training improves ABx as you develop additional neural pathways for characteristic detection which is what preference is. |
