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And people know a $100 bottle of wine tastes better, and can be shown to have a different experiance with FMRI studies than the same wine in a $10 bottle. Your perceptions are no better than the...

And I know enough about confirmation bias and the kinds of failures in perception and thinking that everyone is subject to, that I am skeptical of claims made with out proper data.

For example...

So logic and science are not relevant here? Good to know I guess.

And about human perception, memory and bias.


I am not saying all the differences are hype, just that hype and bias make it very very difficult to make any kind of definitive statement.

But that does not mean it matters.


And that might well be true, but it doesn't mean that a lot of the hype about X being so much better than Y is anything but hype.

Here for example is a...

And it would matter if what you care about is visual appearance under a microscope. You can measure all kinds of differences with fancy equipment to tell the difference between regular and...

And again my point is not that there is can not be a difference, just that with out blinding a perceived difference might not equate to a real difference. Honestly only disposable razor companies...

I am not saying that there is no difference, just that when it is this subjective that an honestly perceived difference may not equate to a real difference.

And audiophiles claim that they can hear the difference between a $1000 power cable and a $2 one. People have a very strong capacity to convince themselves of what they want to believe. Of course...

Of course there was that nice study that found people rated the same wine better when told it cost $100 than when told it cost $10. When not informed on the price it was in between.

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