Is positive reinforcement why things are sounding better?


So I buy a nice amplifier and later I buy a nice preamplifier and then later I buy Nice speaker cables and each time things seem to improve nicely.

And then I buy telefunken 12ax7 nos tubes for a tube amplifier, and improved tonality, clarity and  a tighter sound is what I get and it's very engaging (tubes are only a few days old). The cymbals seem to come through with more openness.

Things seem to be sounding pretty good and I'm saying to myself is it real or is it just positive reinforcement playing with my head? And the devil is telling me oh let's buy more NOS tubes for the rest of the amplifier. The effects of positive reinforcement can be very expensive. 

Just curious if positive reinforcement experiences have occurred for others, and how can you really tell?

 

emergingsoul

 

«Confirmation bias, as the term is typically used in the psychological literature, connotes
the seeking or interpreting of evidence in ways that are partial to existing beliefs,
expectations, or a hypothesis in hand.
The author reviews evidence of such a bias in a
variety of guises and gives examples of its operation in several practical contexts.
Possible explanations are considered, and the question of its utility or disutility is
discussed.»

Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises
Raymond S. Nickerson
Tufts University

 

https://pages.ucsd.edu/~mckenzie/nickersonConfirmationBias.pdf

 

It is here for all to read that conflating confirmation biases with lying is reducing a complex process to a simplistic process and conflating the concept of biases with the concept of lies...

 

i post this for the benefit of all. I dont hopen or think  the harassing idiot

who trail me in all threads is in a state making him able to any understanding ... This biases in me is confirmed by his behaviour and inhability to ever provide any argument against my post... He troll me because of blinding hate or complete stupidity or a mix of the two ..😊

i post this for the benefit of all. I dont hope the harassing idiot 

who trail me in all threads  is in a state making him able to any understanding ..

Actually, @mahgister  , I do not "trail you in all threads."  I try to avoid you.  It just so happens that I commented in this thread prior to your rambling diatribes, so maybe you are trailing me?

I can’t help but notice that most people’s babies are not that nice looking but when my boys were babies they were adorable.  

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