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But, you know, modern science is still pretty young relative to human existence


Actually there is a ton of 'ancient' science, since the dawn of language invention that is quite amazing and accurate even by today's standards.
The concept of audio is certainly not new, since the dawn of the animal ear.
I'm not sure why people think this concept of audio testing is considered 'modern' as in the past decade. Human behaviour testing has gone on for alot longer, i believe in the hundreds of years range if i recall my Psych 101 classes (medic8r any updates on that info?).
Modern science can very much analyse anything our ears can hear. If there were correlations between what the brain perceives from the ear as being different from what instruments measure, that in itself is a pattern which any human whose taken basic stats can analyse.

I guess we need a discussion on the definition of modern.
Tom, why don't you kick that off for us starting with an ode to beer

"Those who preach the myths of audio are ignorant of truth."