Statistical analysis of bithermal binaural caloric test results gave a statistically significant response difference between ears for right-handed normal subjects. There were no significant response differences due to temperature of stimulation or due to the interaction between temperature of stimulation and ear stimulated. Of the four different orders of stimulation tested, all were statistically equivalent. Because intrasubject variance from a statistical analysis of normal subject responses was evidently much smaller than percentage based variance, the use of absolute differences or confidence intervals for determination of normal limits should yield more precise normal criteria than percentage based comparisons allow.
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