May 4, 2009

Can people tell pate from dog food?

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Conclusions

Subjects significantly disliked the taste of dog food compared to a range of comestible meat products with similar ingredients. Subjects were not better than random at identifying dog food among five unlabeled samples. These two results would seem to be paradoxical. Why did the 72% of subjects who ranked sample C as worst in terms of taste not guess that sample C was dog food?

1 comment:

  1. How peculiar! People must not think dog food tastes that bad. I must say my dog's fake chocolate chip cookies taste a lot like the bags of chocolate chip cookies you get from the vending machine.

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