Comments on: How To Rig A Taste Test

By: mitya

mitya — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:57:26 +0000

this is totally true. it was discussed in blink by malcolm gladwell.

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:15:13 +0000

korrect place for taste test = HELL’S KITCHEN and KITCHEN NIGHTMARES where evil ramsay quizzes wannabe chefs on tellin chicken from ham

the runner-up of the last HK USA — previously a nanny and seemingly blonde and ditzy — conquered ALL in the taste-test, which wz awesome and saved her bacon bootwise for several shows

when it’s best is when mr “would-be cordon bleu” [haha gordon bleu <--- joke to save for later] sez “oh oh i know this is it FRUITGUMS” when it is in fact OYSTERS ect ect

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:43:58 +0000

The Mark Thomas bit in the otherwise rather unsatisfactory show did a taste test with 30 small sips of cola. I think that after about three cups your mouth is desensitised and so the brains idea of preference takes over - and as Tom says its often about people over marking the samples they think is their favourite higher. More interesting they can be used to illustrate how people do multiple choice tests (never more than four they think are the same).

Brain be stupid.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:34:51 +0000

There’s a food science element to it - i.e. I just made it up BUT I wd hypothesise from everything I know about product testing that it is true. I can’t think why anyone would do a recognition test anyway, maybe Mark Thomas so he can say “they are all the same aaah”.

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:22:27 +0000

re:”**”
is this an fact as totally once and for all proved by FOOD SCIENCE DAY (viz: “isn’t rose just red and white wine mixed”?) or does it have independent “validity”