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TWO TYPES OF SENSORY PANELS OR ARE THERE MORE?
Author(s) -
SCRIVEN FRANCES
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of sensory studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.61
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1745-459X
pISSN - 0887-8250
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-459x.2005.00044.x
Subject(s) - perception , sensory system , measure (data warehouse) , psychology , argument (complex analysis) , population , consumer research , applied psychology , statistics , computer science , mathematics , cognitive psychology , marketing , data mining , medicine , environmental health , business , neuroscience
The purpose of this article is to discuss the issues associated with selecting assessors for sensory panels. It develops the argument that although there are many variations in the detail of how assessors are selected, all panels can be considered as either (1) selecting respondents to measure ingredient concentrations via perceptions or (2) selecting respondents to represent the response that would be obtained from a wider consumer population. The validity of the data collected, i.e., the extent to which the data collected measures what was originally intended, depends on the detail of how assessors were selected as well as a number of other factors.