Blind Taste / Robin Goldstein » dog food http://blindtaste.com A critical review of food, drinks, culture, and cognition Wed, 02 May 2012 11:28:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dog food vs. pâté on Colbert Report http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/12/dog-food-vs-pate-on-colbert-report/ http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/12/dog-food-vs-pate-on-colbert-report/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 04:05:45 +0000 Robin Goldstein http://blindtaste.com/?p=275 s-stephen-colbert-cat-food-large

Apparently Stephen Colbert was amused by our paper investigating whether people could taste the difference between pâté and dog food.

His conclusion was pretty funny.

]]> http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/12/dog-food-vs-pate-on-colbert-report/feed/ 2 Can people distinguish pâté from dog food? http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/01/can-people-distinguish-pate-from-dog-food/ http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/01/can-people-distinguish-pate-from-dog-food/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 15:48:46 +0000 Robin Goldstein http://blindtaste.com/?p=153   Full Article… ]]> As reported by Jerry Hirsch in today’s LA Times, my latest research article, co-authored with John Bohannon (the “Gonzo Scientist”) of Harvard University and Alexis Herschkowitsch of Fearless Critic Media, discusses the results of a blind tasting that we conducted of five puréed meat-based products. Although 72% of subjects ranked the dog food as the worst of the five samples in terms of taste (Newell and MacFarlane multiple comparison, P<0.05), subjects were not better than random at correctly identifying the dog food.

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The article has just been posted as a working paper (pdf) with the American Association of Wine Economists.

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