The science of opinion ...


Some may find this interesting (it is).

Some may find this threatening (it isn't, it is science).

Some may read it and use it to help them understand the dynamics of internet forums.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0078433
atdavid
The OP has been here for 9 days now with an average of 23.5 posts per day. With all that typing, one would think you are making friends and influencing people. I think that might not be the case ...  
dill,

9 days and I have already received quite a few personal messages. I am quite happy to make friends with people I would want to be friends with in real life. 23.5? ... geoff does that in an hour.


Instead of reflecting on how many posts I have made in 9 days, perhaps reflect on who comes to this particular thread (and my 5 stages one). While some came in, made a comment and left, the usual suspects, the real prolific posters with many many thousands of posts, who pshaw the very notion of these two threads, are the ones repeatedly posting in them. Why are a few paragraphs of text so threatening?
atdavid, so now you're going to tell ME what I mean? A very succinctly wrote what I meant. It can be said one's perception is one's reality, Bla bla bla.....When I add a tweak to my system and I put on a song I know inside and out and hear a subtle nuance I've never heard before time and time again, yeah, I KNOW what I'm hearing. You are just another guy in a long line of guys that came before you trying to save the audio souls of those you perceive as ignorant, fooling themselves, being shilled etc....simply because we don't require reams of scientific evidence to back up why we hear what we hear, and if there is none forthcoming, we can't possibly be hearing it. 'Threatening'?? "Afraid of'?? What a joke. Amusing and mildly annoying, you bet.
+100 @thecarpathian !!

Pretty sure fake David was sent here from Ethan or ASR forums like a Terminator to save our poor souls from the evil.

These guys are in a mission. They will not stop until all of us have cheap $50 China DACs, tiny pro speakers on kiddie stools from Walmart, Crown amps from Amazon, zip cord for cables, and Chromecast for streamers.
Their mission is precisely that: burning down the entire audio industry to the ground.
"...tiny pro speakers on kiddie stools from Walmart..."
For years, my only system was a $100 boombox on a Walmart stool. It seems that those soul saviors had gotten me way before I heard about them.