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Antonia Olivia Dolan and colleagues conducted a study of participants’ preferred listening volume, in decibels (dB), for various audio recordings, including heavy metal music, acoustic folk music, and nature sounds. The team found that participants listened to recordings they liked most at higher volumes (greater dB) than recordings they liked less and that musicians tended to listen at higher volumes than nonmusicians did. For example, if the favorite recording of both a participating musician and a participating nonmusician was Metallica’s “Sad but True” and the musician played it at 85.5 dB, it was therefore likely that ______