Psychophysics (roughly defined as the scientific study of the relationship
between human and animal perception and physical energies)is a scientific
discipline dating back to the 1830s.
When you read an eye chart or have your ears tested by an audiologist you
are doing psychophysics.
The issue under discussion is actually on applications of Weber's Law which
has it that humans perceive changes in energy in relation to the ratio of
energies rather than their absolute differences as measured in physical
units. Hence dB
cheers
end
Barry Kirkwood PhD ZL1DD
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----- Original Message -----
From: Stu Greene <wa2moe@doitnow.com>
To: Barry Kirkwood <bjk@ihug.co.nz>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, 07 September, 2001 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Re: [AMPS] True Or Not True #2
> At 08:24 AM 9/7/01 +1200, you wrote:
>
> >By definition, from psychophysics, 1dB is the increase or decrease in
signal
> >strength that can be discerned by an average observer on 50% of
occasions.
> >A 2dB increase should be discernible by an average observer at any signal
> >level.
> >cheers
>
> what (is) (are) psychophysics ? Psycho I dig. Physics, sure, Is the
> definition a weird science?
>
> 73 Stu
>
>
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