[owenversteeg]

I agree with your point, and to make it worse some of those 10 people were from a previous, discredited study by the same authors.

Funny enough two comments I made - on this thread, now dead - went from +2 to -4 very quickly. Another comment went from +5 to +2.

I've got a pretty strong feeling that people love telling this anecdote about "science over art!" and ironically don't like it when it turns out the science is actually bad science. As a result, they're banding together and simply mass-downvoting things.

There's an interesting debate to be had here, on the merits of the sounds of different instruments, and the linked NYT article is fascinating. Unfortunately, people seem to be caught up in a frenzy of linking bad science to each other instead of actually discussing violins, which are a personal passion of mine.

I went into more detail on the bad science in my other comment here, which is going negative now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13233977