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Blind tasting reduces selected identity and expectation cues, while contextual tasting tests the experience consumers actually receive; neither method is universally superior, and conclusions should match the question each design can answer.
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The blind-tasting example is small and historical; it illustrates cue control rather than proving category indistinguishability.
Blind designs reduce selected expectation cues, while context-sensitive evidence shows labels, expertise, and experience are part of real-world perception.
Created from a deduplicated cross-source synthesis; retain the stated qualifications when drafting. Fresh Goode audit: PDF232 supports expectation/context effects;237–240 uses black glasses for a specific matrix experiment. Neither establishes universal superiority of blind or contextual testing.