>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 t

>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.