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WE have recently described1 experiments in which it was shown that individuals differed but slightly in their capacity to distinguish by touch small differences in viscosity of highly viscous true fluids, and that an 80 per cent level of correct judgments corresponds to a viscosity difference of about 30 per cent.
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BLAIR, G., COPPEN, F. Differential Threshold for Compression Modulus. Nature 144, 286 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144286a0
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