Those who tend to pull/play the expectation bias card also tend to assume that large sums of money were already given away to acquire the competing cables or "fileintheblankherewithsomethingelse" and because of that the testers expectations will always favor the more expensive component.
I disagree.
What if the tester actually wanted the less expensive component to be better but somehow manged to remain open minded enough during the test to let the results speak for themselves and ended up liking the more expensive component more because it was found to be better?
What if the tester borrowed a bunch of cables (in this case) and didn't spend a dime on the test? Does expectation bias still exist in this case?
I guess technically it could but its pretty rare that someone pulls that card and isn't also doing so with reference to supposed excess money being spent in the process.
I disagree.
What if the tester actually wanted the less expensive component to be better but somehow manged to remain open minded enough during the test to let the results speak for themselves and ended up liking the more expensive component more because it was found to be better?
What if the tester borrowed a bunch of cables (in this case) and didn't spend a dime on the test? Does expectation bias still exist in this case?
I guess technically it could but its pretty rare that someone pulls that card and isn't also doing so with reference to supposed excess money being spent in the process.