Correlating the direct emotion had low results, but upon closer review of the comments given by listeners, these comments did correlate correctly with characteristics of certain emotions (ie. Fast mean tempo for happiness and anger).  We have to wonder about the directness of the questions and the affect of relativity as each listener listened to tracks all at once and what they heard before might influence their opinions.  For example, some listeners noted the “no expression” track as “happy” just on the basis of the faster tempo compared to the two tracks before it.
	Experience was seen to play little role in the experiment as seen by the previous few charts.  Anger needs to be looked at as it was mistaken as sad and fear a lot of the time.  While some of the smaller characteristics of “Anger” did show up in listener comments, they were not the main characteristics of that emotion.  Further evaluation must be done, in either the methodology of the experiment or in the expressive parameters adjusted for “Anger.”

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