This sounds tailor-made for moderate Democrats to abandon the lagging Mr Meek in order to keep Mr Rubio out of the seat.My best guess at this surprising result is a pox-on-both-their-parties effect.
I wear a hearing aid in that ear and can get by except in the presence of high background noise (cocktail party effect).
This is one aspect of the "cocktail party effect," whereby a listener with normal hearing can attend to different conversations in turn or concentrate on one speaker despite the surrounding babble.
The less-favourable aspect of the cocktail party effect is that such background noises mask dialogue, making it difficult for persons with sensorineural impairment, such as many elderly individuals, to follow a conversation.
And there we have the sum of modern politics: on the one hand, good policy diluted through fear of adverse reaction, squandered through a focus not on its practical fundamentals but on its inter-party or intra-party effect, and on the other, simple bad policy, sculpted think of border security from fear, apprehension and myth with the entire aim of creating politically useful division.
This is a dynamic effect akin to a cocktail party effect which is difficult to model theoretically.
Rapid head motion resets the cocktail party effect, Kondo and colleagues report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The cocktail party effect is a major area of hearing research, and many important factors that are part of human ASA have been identified.
Studies have been addressing issues such as how the senses interact, which influences they have on each other (predominance), and audio-visual phenomena such as the cocktail party effect [8] and the ventriloquism effect [9].
One example of ASA is the so-called cocktail party effect [2, 3], which describes the human ability to follow a conversation with a single target speaker while other interfering speakers are active.
Consider the so-called cocktail party effect: you are at a party, surrounded by the din of conversation, when all of a sudden, your ears perk up after someone says your name.
