Klarinet Archive - Posting 001124.txt from 2000/05

From: "Paul Miller" <paulplaysclarinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] A meaningful experiment
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 04:10:03 -0400

From: Allen J. Levin

> I wonder if you're not being lured into an intellectual trap. If "dark"
> means something to enough people it is not how you define it; it is how
the
> mass of listeners defines it. Don't tell them what "dark" is until you
> find out if there is any concensus.

You should try to have more than one group of listeners. Use one as a
control group: don't define dark or bright for them (ideally these people
should not be familiar with either of the terms). Use the other groups as
test groups, and define dark/bright to these people. You'd have to come up
with some "concrete" standards, but if you have two test groups plus the
control, you could have different definitions of dark and bright for each of
the test groups... maybe opposite definitions for each test group, or
similar definitions but different ways of thinking about dark and bright.
For at least one test group, the definitions should not be subjective, or at
least they should be as objective as possible. Also, perhaps it would be a
good idea to pre-record the samples so that each group hears *exactly* the
same tones.

-- Paul

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