Layman versus Professional Musician: Who Makes the Better Judge?

Analysis 2 revealed that the effect of pitch interval deviation on non-expert judges' scores was highly significant, while the effects of number of contour errors and the number of modulations did not reach statistical significance ( Table 2 ).

also in 111,027 other papers

pitch interval deviation and number of modulations, the median correlations with the average score given by the judges were high (higher scores for accurate performances) and highly significant.

also in 132,142 other papers