@Lorne_Kates said:how was the chocolate?At this point, stale. I will have to buy fresh chocolate before I can do a valid comparison, and that will have to wait until I have paychecks coming in again.
However, even without a properly blinded test, I can tell you that at least one or two of the varieties I originally purchased for the test will not be repurchased for real test when I (someday) get around to doing it. They are so bitter as to be, if not inedible, at least unpleasant, so they are guaranteed to be losers in the best-tasting evaluation. If I were doing a real study of what people in general like, I would include them, because somebody might like them. But since this is basically just what do I like — unbiased by prior knowledge of which one I'm tasting — I feel justified in eliminating ones I already know I dislike, even if that knowledge was obtained under uncontrolled conditions.