Choose the objective before the session; a failed difference test is not automatically evidence of similarity.
ASTM separates difference and similarity objectives.
The public test-method record says the same triangle format can investigate perceptible difference or sufficient similarity, but the statistical decision settings and initial assumptions differ.
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Significance and use
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