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Normal sense organs possess surplus discriminative efficiency beyond ordinary practical demands

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Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r1 · q1
Currency · newest study 1915 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q1 i? Normal sense organs already discriminate more finely than needed: the ear detects pitch differences smaller than the smallest musical interval, the skin discriminates a fraction of a degree Fahrenheit, and the eye detects a brightness difference of one one-hundredth. → G. M. W 1915

Evidence

G. M. W 1915

G. M. W. (1915). The Problem of Sense Training. The Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. VI, No. 9. https://worldcat.org/search?q=Journal+of+Educational+Psychology+Volume+VI+1915

q1 · i? · theoretical · r1

The editorial cites psychophysical discrimination capacities as evidence of surplus sensory efficiency, presented as established fact without cited sources or new data.

"The normal ear can discriminate differences of pitch much smaller than the smallest musical interval. The skin can discriminate a fraction of a degree, Fahrenheit. The eye can detect a brightness difference of one one-hundredth."

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type claim
id sense-organs-surplus-efficiency
title Normal sense organs possess surplus discriminative efficiency beyond ordinary practical demands
description Normal sense organs possess surplus discriminative efficiency beyond ordinary practical demands
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 1915
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-24
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sources 1 — g-m-w-1915

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