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yup. useless and irritating.
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Here's an almost totally useless "test"
Not sure why you dismiss the test as "almost totally useless", Vernon. The test is based on real science linking a person's sensitivity to taste to the number of papillae on their tongue - as explained at the conclusion of the test.
Just as digital picture quality is determined by the number of pixels, so taste is determined by the number of papillae. Odor [aroma] also contributes to taste, of course.
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I'm inclined to agree with Vernon. I picked the answers closest to what I believe is true of me and came up a supertaster - but in fact I eat everything with enjoyment, except liver and lima beans. The "usually don't like" foods are all things I've always enjoyed - I might have been the only child I know who was disappointed that there weren't Brussels sprouts for dinner!
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With respect, Elizabeth, your personal assessment of the test based on your singular personal experience and self-analysis does not invalidate the test, or even cast suspicion on its scientific credibility.
The test is based on surveys conducted by trained researchers with dozens (perhaps thousands) of test takers, and the validity of the test has already been scientifically established.
In any case, one's own personal experience with a respected scientific test is not a reason to dismiss the test as "almost totally useless".
It would be a reason for trained researchers to treat the singular, self-evaluated, non-conforming result as "almost totally useless", however.
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the test *forced me to answer questions with an inadequate reply. sometimes I go out to eat, sometimes I go out with friends.
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Yep; maybe they did lots and lots of testing that showed that these questions were reliable indicators, but I for one don't see how these can fit all the different circumstances, including, for one: how hungry you are. If you're ravenous, then yes, everything on the menu is going to seem delicious! Also, if you're ravenous, you're probably going to be wolfing down the first bites, probably without stopping to enjoy the taste all that much.
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I grant that you [and Etaoin and Elizabeth] have valid reasons for your personal misgivings, Jackie, but it is likely that the test was designed to be administered by trained researchers who may have provided standard preliminary instructions to all test-takers. These standard instructions may have eliminated some of the uncertainty some test-takers experience when they take the test online without adequate preliminary instruction.
We don't know if the researchers who designed the test would accept as valid or reliable results obtained online by test-takers who may not have understood all of the required preliminary instructions, and who interpreted the results for themselves.
Chances are the researchers would not consider these online results as valid.
No doubt, the researchers would say that anyone exposed in advance to anyone's published denunciation of the validity of the test [as here] would not be an eligible subject for the test as any such person might be influenced, consciously or unconsciously, by that derogatory opinion.
The danger of 'contamination' is especially great in a situation, like the one here at AWADtalk, where test-takers know one another and they may react unconsciously in sympathy with a test-taker who has published strong doubts about the test before they have had a chance to take the test for themselves.
Similarly, someone whom the test-takers dislike could swing their pre-test opinion in the opposite direction, also unconsciously, by expressing strong support for the test.
In either case, the results would be contaminated.
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What bollocks. It's a spurious online freebie of no validity at all.
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Carpathian, I didn't say the test WAS no good, I said I thought it was almost useless. I'm entitled to my opinion, as is everyone on this board. You defend the test as though it was you who invented it. Lighten up.
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Dear Elizabeth:
"Almost totally useless" is almost totally unfair to the serious and respectable scientists who produced this test.
If you hadn't published your harsh and hasty and unqualified disparagement, I wouldn't have felt the need to address your spurious evaluation so bluntly.
So, please, Elizabeth, lighten up.
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