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==Criticism== Stevens' student Donald D. Greenwood, who had worked on the mel scale experiments in 1956, considers the scale biased by experimental flaws. In 2009 he posted to a mailing list:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0907d&L=auditory&P=389 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-12-12 |archive-date=2013-02-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208164732/http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0907d&L=auditory&P=389 |url-status=dead }}</ref> {{blockquote|I would ask, why use the Mel scale now, since it appears to be biased? If anyone wants a Mel scale, they should do it over, controlling carefully for order bias and using plenty of subjects{{snd}} more than in the past{{snd}} and using both musicians and non-musicians to search for any differences in performance that may be governed by musician/non-musician differences or subject differences generally.}}
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