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"Chia-Jung Tsay’s analysis of classical musician auditions explicitly drew on this idea by providing participants with only 6 second clips of each performance."

"Chia-Jung Tsay’s analysis of classical musician auditions explicitly drew on this idea by providing participants with only 6 second clips of each performance." Speaking as someone who studied violin in college, this is absurd - you can't judge an entire audition based on a 6-second clip. Was any effort made to ensure that the clip was representative of the entire performance? Also, a video can give you an idea of the musician's technique, which for many instruments is probably worth a lot more than an arbitrary 6 seconds of audio.

quanticle 13y ago
>you can't judge an entire audition based on a 6-second clip The entire point of the study is that, counterintuitively, you can. The participants who watched the 6 second video clips without audio did better than random chance in predicting who actually won the audition. They weren't judging the musicians. The musicians had already been judged by professionals. What the study showed was that flash, unconscious judgement plays a significant role in the judgements of both laypeople and trained judges.
VLM 13y ago
>you can't judge an entire audition based on a 6-second clip. Trust me, guys can judge the attractiveness of a woman that fast, I google'd her and if she's the pix returned, she is a very beautiful woman. If the only point of watching live music, besides conspicuous consumption, is to actually watch a live human being perform, well, obviously a high level of beauty is an inherent part of that performance. If it wasn't, they'd just play a cd on the stage or something. Which points out an obvious problem with her "research". Her mistake was in not equalizing the sample and making all the musicians wear literal gorilla costumes or something like that. You could still see / hear their individual style but guys couldn't consciously or unconsciously vote for the most beautiful musician.

quanticle 13y ago

>you can't judge an entire audition based on a 6-second clip The entire point of the study is that, counterintuitively, you can. The participants who watched the 6 second video clips without audio did better than random chance in predicting who actually won the audition. They weren't judging the musicians. The musicians had already been judged by professionals. What the study showed was that flash, unconscious judgement plays a significant role in the judgements of both laypeople and trained judges.

VLM 13y ago

>you can't judge an entire audition based on a 6-second clip. Trust me, guys can judge the attractiveness of a woman that fast, I google'd her and if she's the pix returned, she is a very beautiful woman. If the only point of watching live music, besides conspicuous consumption, is to actually watch a live human being perform, well, obviously a high level of beauty is an inherent part of that performance. If it wasn't, they'd just play a cd on the stage or something. Which points out an obvious problem with her "research". Her mistake was in not equalizing the sample and making all the musicians wear literal gorilla costumes or something like that. You could still see / hear their individual style but guys couldn't consciously or unconsciously vote for the most beautiful musician.