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Selection bias. It's really no different from how people always seem to think all music in ${decade that they were teenagers} was so much better. Because all we
by pluma 12y ago
Selection bias. It's really no different from how people always seem to think all music in ${decade that they were teenagers} was so much better. Because all we remember are the handful of songs we liked plus the memorable stuff that survived in "best of" compilations.
- jedberg 12y agoActually there is a different reason music during your teenage years is the most meaningful to you. It's because it was the music you listened to while having your strongest emotional experiences. It consoled you after that first breakup, was playing during that first kiss, etc. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/08/musical_nostalgia_the_psychology_and_neuroscience_for_song_preference_and.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
- pluma 12y agoThe two aren't mutually exclusive, though. This merely explains why you remember certain individual songs and think they are better than you might think if they didn't have any special meaning to you. The fact that those that you remember are likely the better ones (rather than an unbiased sampling) is what makes you think all music was better (or that there was more better music, at least).