Professoring works a bit different in Germany.
There one has to 'habilitate' ie do some new work on a level above a doctorate.
It takes 4 to 10 years after the doctorate during which time publishing papers is a must.
After that no one can take the title 'Professor' away from you and no more published work is required.
I once had a dentist in Germany who's full title was 'Herr Professor Doctor Doctor' and Germany being Germany he had a legal right to be referred to as such.
Things may have changed a bit in the last 25-30 years though.
I'd say someone would have to have some fairly poor discrimination in taste if they couldn't tell the difference blind between ginger ale, ginger flavor, 7up which is lemon flavored and Coke which is a caramel flavor with acidity. Not saying that some wouldn't care what they drink but to not be able to tell the difference is kinda hard to believe. Now comparing Coke to Pepsi would take more of a discriminating taste test but I can usually instantly tell when someone slips me a Pepsi instead of a Coke, Pepsi is much sweeter tasting to my tastes.
A really good test like telling the difference between amplifiers would be being able to tell the difference between normal Coke with HFCS and the Mexican Coke that has cane sugar. They do taste very similar but there is a subtle difference between them.
A really good test like telling the difference between amplifiers would be being able to tell the difference between normal Coke with HFCS and the Mexican Coke that has cane sugar. They do taste very similar but there is a subtle difference between them.
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Maybe you are thinking of a Type 2 error in statistics? A false negative?
You make it sound as if Germans have the highest percentage of Neanderthal DNA.
Not so, all modern humans have Neander DNA however Africans carry by far the least and people from Tuscany, Italy the most on average.
Other Neander DNA hotspots are the Levant, former Yugoslavia and Portugal.
5% apparently is abnormally high.
Really?? Where does that come from??
Personally I am more like: blind testing - if there's a real difference, I will hear it or bust!
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Well that is where the valley is is it not
(German). Migration to warmer places is not a bad thing thus the move to Tuscany . Also 4.9% is the highest range of Neanderthal DNA so far found by the Human Genome project. This not to say it is an absolute but just data so far. I my self migrated to Atlanta from ohio a move both my wife and I found to be very pleasing for us. So a move from cold valley to Tuscany make much sense to me .. As far as I see it the research is still in the early stages .
What the lady describes
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/the-problem-with-how-we-treat-bipolar-disorder.html
George
You guys actually have previously held biases that keep you from believing what I saw with my own eyes. I saw this as a 'bar bet' for real money. Everybody failed. There are further reasons for this than just that peoples' tastebuds apparently saturate, but that is another story, that incidentally parallels early double blind testing procedures.
Well that is where the valley is is it not
As far as I see it the research is still in the early stages .
Neanderthals are named after where the first remnants were found but they were living all over Europe and Asia for a hundred thousand years before being pushed out by modern man some 50 000 years or so ago.
Did the contestants have to pinch their nose?
If yes then it is believable.
Otherwise I have my doubts given that I find it trivial to pass the Pepsi/Coke test blind, never mind those three drinks.
Our professor in grad school offered a standing bet that nobody could correctly identify three different beers in blind testing. The subject got to choose which three beers. After seeing several colleagues accept this bet and lose badly, my pal and I decided we would find a way to win.
Our answer was: training! We chose beers that seemed, to us, to have very different tastes. Then we practiced identifying those tastes, both sighted and blind. Once you know exactly what to taste for, and once you've trained yourself to taste exactly that, it turns out to be rather easy.
We decided the three beers that were most distinctive, and easiest to tell apart, were Michelob, Miller Hi-Life, and Beck's lager. (This was in the 80s before those brands all-but-disappeared). The gloating prof administered the test at the (in)famous T. T. the Bear's Place pub in Central Square. Both of us "won", i.e., correctly identified all three beers, in a blind test.
If you're interested, try this yourself. It's surprisingly easy after five or six training sessions, where you focus on the distinct, identifying characteristics of each. ProTip: don't get hammered in training, wait til you win the bet and the loser is buying.
Our answer was: training! We chose beers that seemed, to us, to have very different tastes. Then we practiced identifying those tastes, both sighted and blind. Once you know exactly what to taste for, and once you've trained yourself to taste exactly that, it turns out to be rather easy.
We decided the three beers that were most distinctive, and easiest to tell apart, were Michelob, Miller Hi-Life, and Beck's lager. (This was in the 80s before those brands all-but-disappeared). The gloating prof administered the test at the (in)famous T. T. the Bear's Place pub in Central Square. Both of us "won", i.e., correctly identified all three beers, in a blind test.
If you're interested, try this yourself. It's surprisingly easy after five or six training sessions, where you focus on the distinct, identifying characteristics of each. ProTip: don't get hammered in training, wait til you win the bet and the loser is buying.
Back when I was a smoker, I was challenged to tell blindfolded my brand of cigarette from another. I was able to consistently tell between mine and one other brand because the filter was different (and one tended to stick to the lip). But in a test between mine (a non-menthol) and a menthol cigarette (!) I often managed to get it wrong... embarrassing. Worse, because the guy challenging me to the test was an S.O.B., I also got it wrong (didn't notice) multiple times when he hadn't even lit one of the cigarettes.
At the time, in that pub, the good stuff was Fischer d'Alsace and/or Cheshire. We were penniless and unsophisticated. Thanks to an internship that summer at Intel in Oregon (the year Mount St. Helens blew!), I got to sample some of the earliest microbrews in America -- and hated them. I much preferred Portland's own local brand, Henry Weinhard's. It briefly went national, including wonderful TV ads from the Hal Riney ad agency (the people whose "Morning In America" ad elected Ronald Reagan), but Henry's never caught on except in its home state.And make sure to go for the good stuff at that point?
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