An amusing post on the Freakonomics Blog about a ‘paper’ attempting to quantify who was the better singer for AC/DC: Bon Scott or Brian Johnson.
Interesting data, but the analysis is completely wrong. If the participants made better decisions listing to newer-era AC/DC, that means their brains were less engaged with the music and more engaged on their tasks. Therefore, to ascertain the better singer, the worse the decisions made by the individuals, all other things being equal, the more the listener subconsciously likes the song due to the larger amount of scarce thinking resources allocated by the brain to the music.
That, and, well Ride On is AC/DC’s best song, ever.