[flopto]

Planet money's coverage is great; I think a bunch of the posts below would be answered by listening to the podcast.

One of the main things I remember taking away from the podcast was that the soloists in the study were not the most famous "best" violinists in the world (they may not even have been professionals?). One of the violin makers they interviewed thought this was the biggest weakness of the study, and he was confident he could tell the difference (not that that means too much).