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oktober 15, 2004

Measuring beauty

Philip Ball i Nature:
Measuring beauty
Philip Ball asks whether a method of persuading people to tell the truth in subjective surveys might give us a more robust way to judge the quality of art.

Surveys to judge truth of answers
Predicting the results of political elections could be transformed from a black art into a science, thanks to a new way of getting people to tell the truth. According to the mathematical psychologist who devised it, his method can elicit more truthful subjective judgements about anything from business forecasts to the quality of a piece of art.

Posted by hakank at oktober 15, 2004 10:47 EM Posted to Diverse vetenskap