hunter_le five
Sheriff Underscore
Some of you may remember a couple months ago when, amidst a rather heated debate regarding the statistical significance of small amounts of Trans Fats in food products, brother Boydster issued the following challenge:
Feeling somewhat guilty about a hyper-intelligent-nano-dolphin-related dermatological mishap that I may or may not have been responsible for inflicting on poor Boydster, I volunteered to conduct the test:
Days went by. Then weeks. Then months. To be honest, after all this time I had completely forgotten about my hasty decision to take part in this test, and assumed the whole thing had been a joke on the part of Boydster.
However, when I got home from work last night, I found a single bottle of water sitting on my doorstep, with a little note attached:
Being a man of my word, I commenced the Great Experiment at once. I immediately called a couple of my brew buddies over to take part in a triangle test, and procured two bottles of Dasani water to compare with in the blind sample.
I poured a sample of each bottle into identical drinking glasses, and had SWMBO arrange them in a random order and assign them numbers. Only she knew which was which.
We then each took a taste of each glass, and tried our best to determine which glass tasted different than the others. As you can see, all three glasses appear to be indistinguishable with the naked eye. Following are out tasting notes, as transcribed by SWMBO:
Sadly, the results are inconclusive. I was the only one to try all three samples, because *apparently* my so called "friends" are cowards with weak constitutions.
Based on my tasting notes, I came to the conclusion that Sample #3 was probably the bottle with a statistically insignificant amount of urine in it (or "100% Urine-Free", according to boydster), only because it tasted somewhat different than the other two. SWMBO refused to tell me if I was correct or not, and now she refuses to kiss me ever again.
Feeling somewhat guilty about a hyper-intelligent-nano-dolphin-related dermatological mishap that I may or may not have been responsible for inflicting on poor Boydster, I volunteered to conduct the test:
Days went by. Then weeks. Then months. To be honest, after all this time I had completely forgotten about my hasty decision to take part in this test, and assumed the whole thing had been a joke on the part of Boydster.
However, when I got home from work last night, I found a single bottle of water sitting on my doorstep, with a little note attached:
boydster's note said:
Being a man of my word, I commenced the Great Experiment at once. I immediately called a couple of my brew buddies over to take part in a triangle test, and procured two bottles of Dasani water to compare with in the blind sample.
I poured a sample of each bottle into identical drinking glasses, and had SWMBO arrange them in a random order and assign them numbers. Only she knew which was which.
We then each took a taste of each glass, and tried our best to determine which glass tasted different than the others. As you can see, all three glasses appear to be indistinguishable with the naked eye. Following are out tasting notes, as transcribed by SWMBO:
hunter_la5 said:
Mike said:
Bill said:
Sadly, the results are inconclusive. I was the only one to try all three samples, because *apparently* my so called "friends" are cowards with weak constitutions.
Based on my tasting notes, I came to the conclusion that Sample #3 was probably the bottle with a statistically insignificant amount of urine in it (or "100% Urine-Free", according to boydster), only because it tasted somewhat different than the other two. SWMBO refused to tell me if I was correct or not, and now she refuses to kiss me ever again.
