Which BYC member scares you?

[BelovedBirds]

How my husband's kombucha tastes different when he makes it vs when I make it even though I make it the same way.

which is better?

 

[Isadora]

which is better?

His! His is amazing.

 

[azurbanclucker]

which is better?

prolly his, because she doesn't have to make it.

 

[azurbanclucker]

His! His is amazing.

There's some nerdy science behind this too that has to do with applied perception bias. Long story short, turns out we all hate ourselves more than we hate other people. Even if given identically prepared concoctions in a blind test, we will always choose someone else's because we're too critical of ourselves.

 

[Isadora]

There's some nerdy science behind this too that has to do with applied perception bias. Long story short, turns out we all hate ourselves more than we hate other people. Even if given identically prepared concoctions in a blind test, we will always choose someone else's because we're too critical of ourselves.

If it's a blind taste test, how could we know it was the one we made?
I understand having a skewed perception because of how we see ourselves, but unless something was different, I don't see how you could tell in a blind study.

 

[BelovedBirds]

His! His is amazing.

no chance he uses a secret ingredient?

 

[BelovedBirds]

There's some nerdy science behind this too that has to do with applied perception bias. Long story short, turns out we all hate ourselves more than we hate other people. Even if given identically prepared concoctions in a blind test, we will always choose someone else's because we're too critical of ourselves.

Idk why, as I read this, my brain put a full stop here:

Long story short, turns out we all hate ourselves.

 

[Isadora]

no chance he uses a secret ingredient?

I doubt it. He's a cool dude. He wants me to succeed.

 

[BelovedBirds]

If it's a blind taste test, how could we know it was the one we made?
I understand having a skewed perception because of how we see ourselves, but unless something was different, I don't see how you could tell in a blind study.

he could take both dishes, knowing which are which, and you try them and see if you can taste any difference. Then pick which you preffered and he'd tell you which it was!
It would be an interesting test!

 

[azurbanclucker]

If it's a blind taste test, how could we know it was the one we made?
I understand having a skewed perception because of how we see ourselves, but unless something was different, I don't see how you could tell in a blind study.

In the study I read, they had people prepare cocktails identically. basically pre-measured ingredients that they just had to add together in the same order. Then they took them away and brought them back in several glasses, labeled with the participant's names. One set was just as they took them, so "bob"'s drink was in bob's glass, "larry"'s drink was in larry's glass, and the participants chose the opposite as better. Next time around, they brought them back switched. "bob"s was in "larry"s, and vice versa Same result. Third time they brought them back with no labels except "A" and "B" and no indication of which was which, and the results were 50/50 because they were effectively the same drink and with no perception bias it was just a guess.

Their control group was run the same as test 3. so those participants mixed the drinks, tasted theirs, and then were brought back the A/B glasses and asked to chose which drink was theirs. 50/50.

It's been a while since I read it, I will try and dig it back up. Was a study from Cornell Uni if I remember correctly and would have been from the early 2000's