Musical Expectation Bias

You are right about the expression " expectation bias"... It is used In a scientific test conditions environment...

But in ordinary life our "expectation biases" pertaining to our own gear can be dependant and vary in function of our hearing history and culture... The japanese audiophile dont favor exactly the same speakers design colors than some other cultures.

Then before conducting a scientific test we must sample the subjects used  to understand also who they are ...

Or we can use very varied  large samples in some studies etc ...

Expectation bias generally relates to experimental design flaws, not (in this example) to subjects’ perceptions in a study. If expectation bias were involved in that study, it would likely be a fundamental issue rendering the investigators’ discussion misleading, as they’d be premised on spurious results.

This is an example of why it can be hard to discuss such topics in audiophilia - there’s a “minimum height requirement” in background knowledge for stuff like this to make sense among back-n-forth discussion (i.e. > 1 person). 😉 I know that looks reeediculously pretentious in print (Eew!) - I’m sorry, and I mean no offense. It just is what it is.

Expectation bias

Thanks i never heard this one ...

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You are a good guy and i cannot thank you enough for the Joey De Francesco recommendation..I collected all i could of him and he became my favorite on Hammond...😊

But psychoacoustics study cultural sound habits and stylistic perception and acoustic perception biases and habits in all cultures...

It is a meaningful study in psychoacoustics field which is not part of liberal arts science but more pertaining to general physiological and cultural related acoustics studies..

@mahgister you really MUST understand the reputation of MIT being an elite university for technologies and engineering. That particular study on how certain nationals get used to their native harmonies and rhythms maybe fine for universities with liberal arts orientation, but not really engineering and/or technologies!!

Giraffes called studies about cheese flavors chemistry useless because it is supposed to  interest primary the mice taste only...

But we humans called interesting in his own way any studies about cheese tastes chemistry and cultural choices  or acoustics biases  because we are interested in psychoacoustics cultural studies as well  ... 😊

I will trust more someone educated with non amplified musical instrument with classical music recording than with just electrical amplified popular music for advice on gear and acoustics... Sorry if i hurt some...

We learn how to listen and our acquired  biases exist and  will impact on soundfield acoustic evaluation ... Think just about decibels listenings levels among many other factors 😁...

it influence not just our rythm interpretation but all other acoustics and musical factors evaluation as timbre experience and immersiveness acoustic conditions...

A recording of piano in a church is not an electrical guitar rock band show recording.. The recording studio works is not done for the same crowd... Dynamic impressions which are asked for are not the same and for not the same goal...

Musical education biases matter even for gear choices and evaluation ... The same for acoustic expertise biases which ask for musical education...