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Re: Thanks for the citations.

All I can say is that I do care about evidence, though I do want to make up my own mind on it. I'm grateful for the list. Most of the stuff I've seen has been on the web and has definitely not been up to the standard normally expected of professional papers in my experience.

And I can understand some technical papers. I've got a major in psychology in my undergraduate degree, a post graduate qualification in occupational health and safety giving me some knowledge of things from the medical perspective, and I have done independent research for my post-grad qualification on eye testing of computer operators which I subsequently presented at a conference on optometrical science and which was also published in one of the peer reviewed occupational health journals so I have a better than average knowledge of what you have to do to get results to the level where they will stand up to professional scrutiny and get published, though I wouldn't call myself a researcher by any means. As for statistics, a lot of my stats is now forgotten and it was never up to professional statistician level anyway.

As for DBTs, I definitely think they have their place in many disciplines. I don't think we can do without them in medicine, and I think they are invaluable in helping define sensory limits when what is at issue is how much of something is needed for it to be audible/perceivable. However perceptability of differences, which is what we are concerned with in most arguments in audio, is a different thing from determining the level at which something becomes audible and my doubts about DBTs concern the perceivability of differences.

I will make one comment on the papers cited: the journals/conference proceedings aren't specified for many of them so I'll have to do some tracking down and, since I'm retired, I no longer have easy reference to professional libraries so it may well take me some time and some journals may well not be available here. I can see myself taking a trip to the local university library one day soon.

And while I am grateful for the list, I am disappointed that Silver Eared John has been let off the hook. His approach is often agressive and condescending and he's the one who's been making the claims and telling everyone who disagrees with him to prove their point whilst refusing to prove his own when questioned. $orabji's reply lets him off the hook a little too easily, but perhaps he can still come through with something additional.

David Aiken

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