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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/02/science/02ERRO.html?pagewanted=1&1016/2001/01/
02/science/02ERRO.html

Linda Bartoshuk has advanced our understanding of the taste system by using
sound as a standard for magnitude matching of taste stimuli.   From this effort
she discovered that old standards were in error.

People do not perceive or experience stimuli the same.  The effort centered on
comparing supertaster for PROP (6-n-propylthiouracil) with others.  The results
suggest that supertasters experience different taste stimuli at higher
intensities than normals.

This suggest that others should use different yard sticks when comparing
subjectively reported experiences.
The yard stick should be unrelated to the sensory system being investigated and
have measurable physical standards.

It is hoped with such efforts that new comparison standards will generate
insight into the subjective world of others.

Ron Blue
http://turn.to/ai




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