cliveb wrote: > Right. Why is it that "golden eared" audiophiles seem to feel that being > subject to expectation bias is some kind of character flaw? Don't they > realise that by insisting they are immune to these influences, they are > declaring themselves to be freaks?
I would add that limiting to only "expectation bias" narrows the phenomenon too much. We don't have to consciously "expect" a certain result in order for our judgement to be affected. Many of those influences take place at a deeply subconscious level. The listener's belief in the reality of their experience is strong precisely because their preference is buried so far down that it can't be separately identified. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97489 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
