johann wrote:
> I'd say it takes a way the expectation bias for those who think there is
> a difference but not necessarily if you think there is no audible
> difference.
Expectation bias works both ways. And expectation bias is but one of
many cognitive heuristics and biases known to exist, and tested
extensively in the psychology literature (primacy effect, recency
effect, and many others). To your point if someone "thinks there is no
audible difference" that in itself could be an expectation bias ("I
expect no differences"). The beauty of the ABX test (or any number of
other double-blind test setups) is that it removes the expectation bias
whatever the direction of the expectation.
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