{"id":347,"date":"2012-01-15T21:38:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T05:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2012-01-15T21:38:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T05:38:53","slug":"on-tools-results-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/15\/on-tools-results-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On Tools &#038; Results, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/deceptivecadence\/2012\/01\/02\/144482863\/double-blind-violin-test-can-you-pick-the-strad\" target=\"_blank\">an article about violins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They gathered professional violinists in a hotel room in Indianapolis. They had six violins \u2014 two Strads, a Guarneri and three modern instruments. Everybody wore dark goggles so they couldn&#8217;t see which violin was which.<\/p>\n<p>Then the researchers told the musicians: These are all fine violins and at least one is a Stradivarius. Play, then judge the instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Curtin, a violin-maker from Michigan, was one of the researchers. &#8220;There was no evidence that people had any idea what they were playing,&#8221; he says. &#8220;That really surprised me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Curtin says of the 17 players who were asked to choose which were old Italians, &#8220;Seven said they couldn&#8217;t, seven got it wrong, and only three got it right.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"On Tools &amp; Results\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/28\/on-tools-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">I think I called this one.<\/a> It&#8217;s the same thing, no matter what field. There should have been a 50\/50 split, and instead, only 3\/17 were right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has an article about violins. They gathered professional violinists in a hotel room in Indianapolis. They had six violins \u2014 two Strads, a Guarneri and three modern instruments. Everybody wore dark goggles so they couldn&#8217;t see which violin was which. Then the researchers told the musicians: These are all fine violins and at least &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/15\/on-tools-results-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Tools &#038; Results, part 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,88,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}