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EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF THE ARTS
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 1-20Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.2190/EM.31.1.a
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This study investigated the issue of subjectivity in dance cognition by examining the amount of agreement in continuous engagement responses made by 12 observers to a semi-improvised dance work. Continuous judgments of engagement were collected using the portable Audience Response Facility, which sampled ratings from participants twice a second. Sample-by-sample standard deviation (SD) scores were used as a measure of observer agreement. SD varied from 19% to 34% of the total engagement scale range. Seven regions of good agreement were identified and analyzed. Sections where expectations were not interrupted were more likely to produce good agreement. A further analysis examined the effect of window size (bin width of one sample, up to 11 samples) and alternate measures of observer agreement (50% interpercentile, 90% interpercentile, and median absolute deviation, in addition to SD) on results. Window size made the least difference to the analysis of observer agreement. The results counter the views that dance response is too subjective to be worthy of experimental investigation, or that it lacks subjective, intertextual components.
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