> Our results are consistent with younger people being generalist repeat consumers who do not often look for very novel music compared to what they know, but th

> Our results are consistent with younger people being generalist repeat consumers who do not often look for very novel music compared to what they know, but the music that they do know is relatively broad. Older listeners are specialist explorers, who look for a specific and potentially ossified set of music but are also constantly discovering and turning content over. I'm not a data scientist but I find it very hard to look at all those charts, many with a very narrow y range, and come to such a black and white conclusion. Sure, the researchers might be pressured to extract "actionable" categorisations in order to justify their salary, but since they released it to the public, you bet we're going to see hundreds of "young people are X, old people are Y" articles citing this study. Why can't they say "a larger percentage of younger listeners (...)"? Argh, I guess that's why I grew to distrust the whole social and medical sciences fields.