[LAU] Re: The Sound of Silence? Johns Hopkins Researchers Prove People Hear It

On 15/07/2023 03:57, David W. Jones wrote: One interesting thing is that while reading I noticed the files for their experiments [1] which are referenced in the full PDF paper [2] there seems to systematically be a tone where the left and right tones are with inverted phase. This was immediately audible with headphones. For example this one:https://s3.amazonaws.com/mcd-headphone-check/v1.0/assets/antiphase_HC_I… Reading the rest it seems this was actually intentional and a 'screening' procedure to see if people were using headphones. Then, because this is the Linux Audio Users mailing list, they write "Beyond requiring headphones, we also optimized our experiment for Google Chrome (and tested it on multiple machines), and then required all subjects to use Google Chrome as well. If any subject initiated the experiment using a non-Chrome browser, they were required to switch to Chrome before being allowed to participate." Sorry to derail from the more philosophical subject :-D [1] https://philpapers.org/archive/RUITPO-4.pdf (this is released with a CC BY-NC-ND license so linking it here) [2] https://rzg.perceptionresearch.org/silence/stimuli/oneSilenceIsMore/3_contr… (note this seems to need chrome but you can see the files by doing a 'network inspection' in the browser)