[Tango589]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Speaking as an ex-psychologist: don't take all this too serious.

To lend from Heisenberg: what researchers examined was not so much the "natural" music listener "as is", but people that were exposed to the researcher's methodology to raise his datapool. And that, in social sciences, often is the problematic variable.

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I'm not entirely sure I agree with this bit either:

He also made a link between income bracket and musical tastes, with more affluent consumers liking more exciting, punchy music while those lower down the pay scale preferring more relaxing sounds.