[geeks] See, I said MP3s sucked

[dave]

kurt at k-huhn.com writes:

>Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

>> http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logologie/MP3-Gefahr/MP3-risk.html
>> 
>> Paper on the possible damage that MP3s cause the listener.

>My gut reaction was to call "Bullshit" on this study.  Then I saw his
>sig:
>CYBERYOGI Christian Oliver(=CO=) Windler
>(teachmaster of LOGOLOGIE - the first cyberage-religion!)
>And *knew* it was bullshit.  the only test subject is himslef, and the
>"test" can only be called unscientific at *best*.

Yup. I didn't even notice the sig, but the fact that he was
talking about the ear filtering out subtle noise on each
side of a clean tone, then jumped to what mp3s do seemed
like a hand-waving trick at best...

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