On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:46:26 -0700, gggg gggg wrote
(in article<
dd3e24f9-a098-4275-843a-c451b00105c3n@googlegroups.com>):
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/study-links-more-testosterone-with-dumber-mu
sic-in-males/
What a dumb article, which begs unanswered questions:
"The 25 fifteen-second musical snippets to which each subject
listened weren't identified to them by genre.
"The snippets were selected by researchers to represent the
spectrum of music, based on five dimensions - Mellow,
Contemporary/Urban, Sophisticated, Intense, and Unpretentious -
identified by neuroscientist Daniel Levitin in a 2011 study.
Oddly, three of the five describe emotional effects, and one, Contemporary/Urban, is a genre, as if Contemporary/Urban can’t
also be mellow, intense, or unpretentious. And the last one seems
to reflect a value judgment: "Sophisticated." Hm. Each
participant was asked to rate a snipper as either "Like very
much," or "Don't like at all."
Nowhere does it or it's linked-to articles say what
those samples are. No, I do not expect this "study"
to be anything but misleading.
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