Is it all in my head??

elizabeth wrote:

—- lTo me the worst problem is the naysayers often seem to think the folks who can hear the differences are deluded idiots.And make assumptions based on THAT premise.”


Thats only because you refuse to read what some of us *actually* say and you continue to carry around the false equivalence of “being in error” and “bias” with “being an idiot.”   It is precisely BECAUSE the brightest person in the room is susceptible to bias-error effects that it makes sense to consider that variable.

So long as you absolutely refuse to even try to understand this point, you will have yourself to blame for your irritation with your own straw man.

Elizabeth 

Fair point!

However I’m used to seeing just that criticism lobbed at me and others here who are not calling you and others deluded idiots. I believe I’ve seen you impute this to my posts before as well.

So taking “the naysayers” to include me and some others who are skeptical didn’t seem like a stretch.


Of course if you point only to those who have said such things you aren’t referring to a straw man.   Problem is the accuracy of that claim can’t be taken for granted given how often I, and other skeptics here, have routinely been misrepresented and strawnanned.   I say something like “how did you determine it was a real effect vs imagined” and as is often seen here I get back something like “so you take me to be a deluded idiot??!!”

Something good is coming out of this. It looks like we have a new definition of a naysayer. Someone who will argue until the cows come home. 🐄 🐄 🐄 Or, someone who will argue until he’s blue in the face. 🥶

When a naysayer ( and I am being gentle here ) " suggests "and " implies ", over and over and over again, that those who do ( myself included ) hear differences in power cables, might be imagining it, I simply have to laugh. It has become a joke at this point. There is some kind of emotional high that they are needing to feed. They cannot accept a very simple fact. For some reason ( s ), they are not hearing it or unable to hear it. I admire those who have tried to listen, but do not hear it, until, they make claims that it is an imaginary hocus pocus for us who do. And the worst of them, are the ones who never try, and call hocus pocus. These threads have become comedic entertainment for me, and I no longer see any of this as serious exchanges of words or ideas. Let the psychobabble continue. Enjoy ! MrD.