That's a lot of questions I'll do my best.
I noticed the thread veered of in the direction of questioning Amirs motives/test methods again.
So many questions keep popping up thinking about the goal of this thread (while leaving dr. Olive out of this as he does not seem to be debated/questioned here.)
Who's opinion are you looking for ?
What is the goal of 'collecting' various opinions ?
Speaker reviews done here on ASR ? (Amir basically) or reviews done elsewhere ?
What controversies are you speaking about and was this settled or remained open with diverging opinions ?
You seem to be looking for other peoples thoughts on 'the reviewer's' experience.
Do you mean Amir's experience in particular or other reviewers in general ?
When you mean other reviewers which ones in particular there are so many ?
Have you based your opinion on the reviewer(s) in question on info found on the web, suspicions about him, personal biases or have you been present during a review by the reviewer(s) in question and came to a different conclusion ?
I mean, speakers, room, listening position, music choice, measurements, knowing limitations of measurements, experience in 'linking' measurements with (sighted or blind) observations.
Are the reviewers opinions gospel ? Are other peoples opinions/papers/publications gospel ? Can people make mistakes (be them honest or not) ? Are there financial gains in reviews (free product or otherwise) ? Is the integrity/authority of the reviewer(s) in question being questioned ?
Who's opinion are you looking for ? People with expertise and knowledge, there's a lot here.
What is the goal of 'collecting' various opinions ? Learning. Everything related to science is interesting.
Speaker reviews done here on ASR ? (Amir basically) or reviews done elsewhere ? ASR makes me discover other site and people which it's great.
What controversies are you speaking about and was this settled or remained open with diverging opinions ? You'll have to read other threads to fully understand. In short word instead of anwsering directly to my/our questions it turns like I/we are attacking Amir's abilitylies and that we don't apppreciate what he's doing. This is false and it can be easily confirmed by reading posts and thread. (Quick exemple : It seems that I'm arrassing the poor Dr Olive (These are not my words). I simply asked a question, politely, there's no arrassement. And finaly why this attitude? What's wrong To get Dr Olive participating here, awnser our questions about his works.)
You seem to be looking for other peoples thoughts on 'the reviewer's' experience. I'm looking for other people expertise. There's a couple here. Some seems to be science oriented.
Do you mean Amir's experience in particular or other reviewers in general ? Amir's experience is not question. The subject is that everyone are subject to biaises, trained or not, useful or not. Simple advices have been provided (Not by me I don't even have credit for that). The main awnser remains : I'm trained I'm LESS subject to biaises. Again no one seems to challenge his abilities. Cognitiv science, and Olive's paper seems to agree that trained or not experienced or not biaises are equelly strong. For heated some people seems to take this to personnaly.
Have you based your opinion on the reviewer(s) in question on info found on the web, suspicions about him, personal biases or have you been present during a review by the reviewer(s) in question and came to a different conclusion ? No I'm not judging Amir. I'm/we are pointing out that some procedure que faulty and we can back it with scientific research.
Are the reviewers opinions gospel ? No. Reviewer's opinion influence other people. We are all subject to the same biaises. Like I said in the OP : hobbies are great way to learn about science. The Covid situation is a good exemple about distrust and bad science can do. For the rest this is again put in the perspective that we été questioning Amir's integrity or abilities : THIS NOT THE CASE, and it never was.
Note that I think you are part of the experienced people here. Your participation is always appreciated.