|Question 13Verbal

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In a recent study, Antonia Olivia Dolan and colleagues investigated the relationship between people's music preferences and their preferred listening volume. Participants listened to recordings—Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, and others—at their preferred volume and indicated their most and least favorite among the recordings. The researchers found that participants listened to recordings they liked most at a higher volume than recordings they liked least. And given that the frequencies in all the recordings were within the audible range of these participants (all of whom had clinically typical hearing), it is therefore likely that for a given participant, the _____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
relationship between the preferred volume of a recording and the participant's attitude toward that recording cannot be attributed to its genre.
A
fact that the preferred volume differed by recording cannot be attributed to the participant wanting to hear the favorite recording at a higher volume than the least favorite recording.
B
difference between the preferred volumes of the favorite and least favorite recordings cannot be attributed to one recording being inherently harder to hear than the other.
C
identification of one recording as the favorite and another recording as the least favorite cannot be attributed to the participant having prior familiarity with either recording.
D