In Reply to: Subjective implies preference posted by E-Stat on May 26, 2006 at 14:56:22:
An ABC/hr test does not measure preference, it measures how different two stimulii are. No issue of which you like.It's as much a subjective test as anything else.
Yeah, you can also measure preference via a subjective test. Sometimes this is done to find out "which of these do you like" in order to find out which of these the population, on the average, likes. This does not mean "mean" it usually means "mode".
As to what you prefer, whatever. That's a question of taste.
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Follow Ups
- No, subjective does not imply preference... - real_jj 15:35:16 05/26/06 (22)
- Sure it does - E-Stat 19:35:40 05/26/06 (21)
- Don't apply Webster definitions to technical terms. - real_jj 22:16:37 05/26/06 (20)
- He is right that lay language often clouds concepts, but you are right about his self-provided definitions. - Norm 08:43:09 05/28/06 (0)
- Words and ideas and arguments mean what jj says they mean - Dave Pogue 05:21:11 05/28/06 (18)
- Spare us all! - Pat D 08:53:26 05/30/06 (10)
- Spare us ... all? - Dave Pogue 09:05:54 05/30/06 (9)
- Re: Spare us ... all? - Pat D 17:47:24 05/30/06 (8)
- Take a look, folks (nt) - Dave Pogue 17:54:47 05/30/06 (7)
- Some of us definitely did :) But what can you say? - Ted Smith 22:13:51 05/30/06 (6)
- Perhaps in your dreams . . . - Pat D 04:11:51 06/01/06 (5)
- Why the tone? - Ted Smith 09:20:43 06/01/06 (4)
- What tone? - Pat D 15:35:26 06/01/06 (3)
- Re: What tone? - Ted Smith 18:00:53 06/01/06 (2)
- Re: What tone? - Pat D 20:02:43 06/02/06 (1)
- Re: What tone? - Ted Smith 20:09:21 06/02/06 (0)
- Do you have anything to add, or are you just playing to Clark and Todt? - real_jj 22:31:03 05/28/06 (5)
- Oh pardon me, your highness - Dave Pogue 04:31:43 05/29/06 (4)
- So, going to cite webster as to what "Warm" and "Transparent" mean, eh? - real_jj 10:56:43 05/29/06 (3)
- It is malicious and disingenious to use lay words completely at odds with their normal meaning. But you know that. nt - Norm 12:28:06 05/29/06 (2)
- Norm, you win the monthly prize! - E-Stat 15:19:48 05/29/06 (0)
- You are ordered to retract your professional accusastion immediately - real_jj 13:38:51 05/29/06 (0)
- He the Man! nt - clarkjohnsen 13:06:38 05/28/06 (0)