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Latest post Mon, Feb 25 2008 12:44 PM by nona the brit. 1 replies.
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Osee  +  481382 Mon, 25 Feb 08 12:33 PM

The following comes from a news article http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2008-02-21-voa2.cfm.

But in truth there were only three different wines, and two of them were presented twice, at a high price and a low price.
For example, the wine that in fact cost ninety dollars a bottle was presented half the time as a ten dollar wine.

I understand the red part implies that $90 wine was presented one time, and $10 twice. Is this right?
If yes, The last sentence comes a little wired or reads indirectly by my point of view.
Because the sentence preceding it says "two of them were presented twice,"
following this logic, I would expect the last sentence reads something like this: For example, the wine that in fact cost $10 a bottle was presented twice.

May I have any comments about this? Thank you.

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nona the brit  +  481389 Mon, 25 Feb 08 12:44 PM

Not quite

There were five wines.

One was given to the tasters once and at its real price.

The other two wines were each given twice; once at the real price and once at an invented price.

So the $90 dollar wine was given to them as a $90 wine and again as a $10 wine. They did the same sort of thing with another wine.

The experiment was to see if people's perception of the wine would vary if they were told it had different values (even if it were the same wine).

 

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