An Opinion on Tea Tasting

Tea Tasting and Pascal Triangles

Tasting Tea By SIR RONALD

An experiment in Beer-tasting.

An experiment in beer tasting among 18 first year pre-clinical students showed that only two appeared to be able to discriminate light from bitter ale correctly. As a whole the group did worse than would be expected by guessing at random on each tasting trial. Some psychological biases, one possibly as a result of the design, are indicated by the results and a possible remedy suggested. The dan...

Scientific Committee on Consumer Products SCCP OPINION ON Tea tree oil

Apple Tasting

We use two transformations to relate the apple tasting model to an enhanced standard model where false acceptances are counted separately from false rejections. We apply our results to obtain a good generalpurpose apple tasting algorithm as well as nearly optimal apple tasting algorithms for a variety of standard classes, such as conjunctions and disjunctions of n boolean variables. We also pre...