Content
Citation(s) & Footnote(s)
Book(s)Complete source processing. The accessible web page was read in full, metadata-checked, critically assessed, and converted into verified locator-level evidence on 2026-08-29.
Source
No access
Core summary
WSU separates consumer acceptance and preference questions from difference or similarity tests and from attribute-diagnostic methods.
Author argument
The sensory method should be selected to match the decision question: liking, detectability, or attribute diagnosis.
Evidence map
Strong institutional methodological guidance; concise but directly relevant.
Critical assessment
Service overview rather than a full experimental protocol; use AWRI and the peer-reviewed review for procedure and limitations.
Retrieval and synthesis
For consumer whiskey blending, a preference choice should not be treated as proof that samples are detectably different or as a diagnosis of why one is liked.
Publication-stage controls
Open questions
None for the methodological distinction used in Step 1.
