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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Not gonna lie, I understood the first sentence (and I'm proud) but not the second one.
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This suggests the existence of a universal cognitive bias to generate melodies based on categorical building blocks.
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It just means humans instinctively prefer simple patterns. They went out of their way to use obtuse terminology because it makes them sound smarter. It's a stunningly common feature of (bad writing in) scientific papers--state the actual evidence, and then hit the reader over the head with what the evidence means in more general terms, except drag it out so it sounds like a brilliant conclusion rather than a derivative rehashing.
"Ketchup is available at 95% of American restaurants.
This suggests people like ketchup. The widespread presence of tomato-based reductions demonstrates the successful incorporation of colonial agronomy techniques with modern ludic promotional functionality."