 What isn't a conclusion drawn?
The point of the second test was not to find the difference between cheap and expensive beers but instead to compare a variety of top-of-the-line beers. Intellectual vanity being what it is, people who had fought for and won jobs at Microsoft and who still must fight every six months for primacy on the employee-ranking scale (which determines--gasp!--how many new stock options they receive) would assume that their skill as tasters was on trial, just as much as the beer was. Here is what happened and what it meant: 1. Procedure. The missing three dropped out with excuses of "my wife is sick" (one person) and "meeting is running long" (two).
 Sam Adams was easily identifiable
 Michelob Hefeweizen is a great beer for the cost  Anheuser-Busch lived up to its popularity  Sam Adams was easily identifiable  Pyramid Hefeweizen is not worth the money