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They're not just any undergrad students, they were Oenology students -- they might not be experts, but they certainly know more about classifying wines by scent
by rpedroso 13y ago
They're not just any undergrad students, they were Oenology students -- they might not be experts, but they certainly know more about classifying wines by scent, flavor profile, etc than a layperson.
- contingencies 13y agoMore to the point, they were French!
- toyg 13y agoUndergraduates in most settings will still be extremely prone to conform to recently-acquired knowledge as dogma, probably even more likely than a layperson. "Uh, they said data must be normalized, so here's 15 db tables to represent an employee..." maps the same as "Uh, they told me to use this and this word for red wines, so here's this and this word..." The paper implies that they sampled "experts", when they really just sampled "students" or "disciples". Quite the difference. (Besides, it's dramatic how scientific research keeps oversampling university undergraduates to such a large extent, purely out of practicality.)