Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoComparison of $4,000 boutique audio cable to $7 Amazon Basics cable shows audiophiles waste a lot of money — scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in qualitywww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1163arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1157arrow-down1external-linkComparison of $4,000 boutique audio cable to $7 Amazon Basics cable shows audiophiles waste a lot of money — scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in qualitywww.tomshardware.comRekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square44fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareAlbbi@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoWith wine, the price literally affects how we perceive the taste of the wine. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/baba-shiv-how-wines-price-tag-affect-its-taste Although this research came out before the fMRI debacle…
minus-squareAlbbi@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 day agoI remembered hearing about it. Turns out there was this published in 2016 which I’m pretty sure was the issue I heard about. https://www.vice.com/en/article/fmri-scanner-study-flawed-pnas-anders-eklund/ As to whether anything more came of this I’m not sure.
minus-squareLikeableLime@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoWow I hadn’t heard of this, but at least the article shows that they were fixing some of this stuff back in 2015. Hopefully by now those bugs have been ironed out. Very interesting, thank you
With wine, the price literally affects how we perceive the taste of the wine. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/baba-shiv-how-wines-price-tag-affect-its-taste
Although this research came out before the fMRI debacle…
What fMRI debacle?
I remembered hearing about it. Turns out there was this published in 2016 which I’m pretty sure was the issue I heard about. https://www.vice.com/en/article/fmri-scanner-study-flawed-pnas-anders-eklund/
As to whether anything more came of this I’m not sure.
Wow I hadn’t heard of this, but at least the article shows that they were fixing some of this stuff back in 2015. Hopefully by now those bugs have been ironed out. Very interesting, thank you