Klarinet Archive - Posting 000793.txt from 2004/07

From: Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (Georg K=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=hner)
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Measuring sound character
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:46:06 -0400

Am 20.07.2004 17:58 Uhr schrieb "Ormondtoby Montoya" unter
<ormondtoby@-----.net>:

> Georg=A0K=FChner wrote:
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>> I just wanted to give an example that a well
>> trained person has the possibility to hear the
>> slightest difference
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> Statistics can be misused --- as the old joke points out: A
> statistician puts one hand in a kettle of boiling water and the other
> hand in a freezer, and he declares "On average, I'm quite comfortable."
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> Nevertheless, consider the probabilities that can derived from the reed
> anecdote if no other data exists:
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> If the teacher made a totally random guess, he would be either right or
> wrong. Thus his chances of being correct would be 50%. How many
> theories would you accept when the odds of it being correct were only
> 50/50?
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> The situation would be different if you had challenged him to guess
> correctly while you played an assortment of 20 other reeds, some planed
> and some sanded and some cut with a diamond saw.
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I think this will be an interesting challenge!

I'll try it!
Regards Georg

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