While Ben Marlin collected another 30k subjects for this music-recommendation study.
http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~malcolm/yahoo/Marlin2007(UserBiasUncertainty).pdf
The underlying data for both papers is available for academic researchers (fully anonymized, both by song and by user). Send me email if you want more information.
- Malcolm
On Dec 1, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Matt Wright wrote:
Trevor Cox recently published the results of an online experiment about listeners' ratings of sound files on a six-point scale ("not horrible", "bad", "really bad", "awful", "really awful", and "horrible"). To date he has 130,000 subjects (!) and about 1.5 million data points:
http://www.sea-acustica.es/WEB_ICA_07/fchrs/papers/ppa-09-003.pdf
Here's the website for his experiment: http://www.sound101.org
Clearly this is related to the "effect of visual stimuli on the horribleness of awful sounds" that Kelly Fitz pointed out.
-Matt
On Jun 29, 2007, at 12:32 AM, Massimo Grassi wrote:
So far it looks that the experiment with the largest N (513!) is "The role of contrasting temporal amplitude patterns in the perception of speech" Healy and Warren JASA but I didn't check yet the methodology to see whether is a between or a within subject design.