{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/humans-can-discriminate-trillions-of","title":"Humans can discriminate trillions of olfactory stimuli, or more, or fewer","arxiv_id":"1502.05120","date":"2015-02-18","proceeding":null,"authors":[],"abstract":"A recent Science paper (Bushdid et al, 2014)[1] proposed that humans can\ndiscriminate between at least a trillion olfactory stimuli. Here we show that\nthis claim is the result of a fragile estimation framework capable of producing\nnearly any result from the reported data, including values tens of orders of\nmagnitude larger or smaller than the one originally reported in [1]. We\nconclude that there is no evidence for the original claim.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05120v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.05120v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"humans-can-discriminate-trillions-of","repo_url":"https://github.com/rgerkin/trillion","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}