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	<title>Comments on: Can people distinguish pâté from dog food?</title>
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		<title>By: Los Angeles Dog Bites</title>
		<link>http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/01/can-people-distinguish-pate-from-dog-food/comment-page-1/#comment-2411</link>
		<dc:creator>Los Angeles Dog Bites</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think this is nice post on dog food. Los Angeles is place where people love there dogs. this dog food survey will be loved by dogs and dogs lover.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think this is nice post on dog food. Los Angeles is place where people love there dogs. this dog food survey will be loved by dogs and dogs lover.</p>
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		<title>By: Robin Goldstein on the Economics of Wine - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com</title>
		<link>http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/01/can-people-distinguish-pate-from-dog-food/comment-page-1/#comment-1512</link>
		<dc:creator>Robin Goldstein on the Economics of Wine - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] blogged in the past about Robin’s research involving blind wine tastings, as well as his research on whether people can tell the difference between pate and dog [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] blogged in the past about Robin’s research involving blind wine tastings, as well as his research on whether people can tell the difference between pate and dog [...]</p>
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		<title>By: angels eyes</title>
		<link>http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/01/can-people-distinguish-pate-from-dog-food/comment-page-1/#comment-1455</link>
		<dc:creator>angels eyes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wanted to compliment the author on an exceptional post.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wanted to compliment the author on an exceptional post.</p>
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		<title>By: What&#8217;s awesome this week: Let them eat dog food &#171; A Fistful of Science</title>
		<link>http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/01/can-people-distinguish-pate-from-dog-food/comment-page-1/#comment-251</link>
		<dc:creator>What&#8217;s awesome this week: Let them eat dog food &#171; A Fistful of Science</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 23:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: leonardo</title>
		<link>http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/01/can-people-distinguish-pate-from-dog-food/comment-page-1/#comment-232</link>
		<dc:creator>leonardo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 17:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At this point the question is:

Is Dog food made with natural ingredients and no preservatives fit also for human consumption?

Because if it is....there is nothing to worry.
In that case , hey I know what to offer this week end for my birthday.

The only thing: I would be very pissed off to pay pate&#039; foie gras money for dog food &quot;pate&#039;&quot;.
That&#039;s the only down side.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At this point the question is:</p>
<p>Is Dog food made with natural ingredients and no preservatives fit also for human consumption?</p>
<p>Because if it is&#8230;.there is nothing to worry.<br />
In that case , hey I know what to offer this week end for my birthday.</p>
<p>The only thing: I would be very pissed off to pay pate&#8217; foie gras money for dog food &#8220;pate&#8217;&#8221;.<br />
That&#8217;s the only down side.</p>
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		<title>By: dm</title>
		<link>http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/01/can-people-distinguish-pate-from-dog-food/comment-page-1/#comment-231</link>
		<dc:creator>dm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 15:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I read the article. I think it&#039;s great. Do you think that the percentage of people who identified the dog food as worst tasting would have been smaller if you hadn&#039;t told participants beforehand that at least one of the mousses was dog food? 

My guess: telling participants likely skewed the results. It primed people to pay very close attention, and that attention helped participants to better perceive which of the five tasted worst. Had they not been paying such close attention, more participants would have chosen one of the other four mousses as worst. 

I wonder if this &quot;Attention Effect&quot; has a broader applicability. Perhaps it explains why people enjoy wine more when they think it&#039;s worth $100 than *that same wine* when they think it&#039;s worth $10. In Wine Trials you highlight the social/cultural explanation for this type of phenomenon: when people believe wine is worth more, they get all sorts of feelings of social and cultural affirmation which increases pleasure. But you could think about  the phenomenon as a matter of attention: when people drink wine that they believe costs $100, they pay closer attention, and that attention allows them to better perceive the pleasant aspects of the taste.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read the article. I think it&#8217;s great. Do you think that the percentage of people who identified the dog food as worst tasting would have been smaller if you hadn&#8217;t told participants beforehand that at least one of the mousses was dog food? </p>
<p>My guess: telling participants likely skewed the results. It primed people to pay very close attention, and that attention helped participants to better perceive which of the five tasted worst. Had they not been paying such close attention, more participants would have chosen one of the other four mousses as worst. </p>
<p>I wonder if this &#8220;Attention Effect&#8221; has a broader applicability. Perhaps it explains why people enjoy wine more when they think it&#8217;s worth $100 than *that same wine* when they think it&#8217;s worth $10. In Wine Trials you highlight the social/cultural explanation for this type of phenomenon: when people believe wine is worth more, they get all sorts of feelings of social and cultural affirmation which increases pleasure. But you could think about  the phenomenon as a matter of attention: when people drink wine that they believe costs $100, they pay closer attention, and that attention allows them to better perceive the pleasant aspects of the taste.</p>
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		<title>By: Justine</title>
		<link>http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/01/can-people-distinguish-pate-from-dog-food/comment-page-1/#comment-225</link>
		<dc:creator>Justine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 12:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would like to do this, especially given my predilection for salter, semi-preserved forms of meat...</description>
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		<title>By: Kent Wang</title>
		<link>http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/01/can-people-distinguish-pate-from-dog-food/comment-page-1/#comment-223</link>
		<dc:creator>Kent Wang</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 22:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t see this as humans eating dog food, but dogs getting to eat pate!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t see this as humans eating dog food, but dogs getting to eat pate!</p>
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