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The sensory result of combining whiskey components cannot be predicted by averaging their individual notes because masking, enhancement, dilution, temporal order, and learned congruence can change the perceived whole.
Reviewed 2026-08-29 against the cited source pages during the complete text-and-visual corpus pass.
The evidence establishes interaction and target-profile equivalence, not a quantitative predictive law for all whiskey blends.
Mixture perception includes interactions, and functionally equivalent target profiles can be assembled from differing inputs.
Created from a deduplicated cross-source synthesis; retain the stated qualifications when drafting. Fresh Goode audit: PDF230 supports interaction;237–240 and252–257 add bounded wine experiments. This is comparative support, not direct verification of all whiskey mechanisms in the claim.