Sound Judgment

The sound judgment series.

was honored and excited when Alfred Abuhamad, MD, president of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), asked me to head a task force to educate AIUM members and nonmembers about when and how to do sonography for conditions where other imaging modalities are likely to be considered instead. As an imaging modality, sonography is safe, effective, and affordable compared with other...

Sight over sound in the judgment of music performance.

Social judgments are made on the basis of both visual and auditory information, with consequential implications for our decisions. To examine the impact of visual information on expert judgment and its predictive validity for performance outcomes, this set of seven experiments in the domain of music offers a conservative test of the relative influence of vision versus audition. People consisten...

Continuous judgment of sound quality of electric home appliances

The sound quality of machinery noises is multi-dimensional and is often examined using semantic differential. In this case the overall impression of sound quality is judged. However, sound quality may vary according to the temporal stream of sounds. In this study, sound quality of electric home appliances was judged using the continuous judgment by line length. Forty-one kinds of the sound of h...

Judgment

The concept of a judgment as a logical action which introduces new information into a deductive system is examined. This leads to a way of mathematically representing implication which is distinct from the familiar material implication, according to which “If A then B” is considered to be equivalent to “B or not-A”. This leads, in turn, to a resolution of the paradox of the raven.

Is a Determinant Judgment Really a Judgment?