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MisterV
This wasn't so bad.
Generally, I don't get your taste in music. At least not that on a gambling forum.
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It appears that the ability of our musical preferences to be influenced peaks in these teenage years. This could be due to a peak in our openness to experience, or perhaps there’s an element of nostalgia for our reckless youth. Either way, this window seems to shut during the late twenties, after which we are doomed to listen to the same three bands until our dying days.
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Gasser says, as we grow, our musical tastes really help us to forge our individual identities — especially distinct from our parents. “Music becomes that stake in the ground — ‘this is who I am,’” says Gasser. “But at the same time, the music people listened to at an early age becomes their native home comfort music. When they grow up, that music will be part of who they are, tied in with memories and growing up. All of these powers are why music is so important to us."
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Those with a musical preference for Mozart and Bach may be more intelligent than people who prefer words in their music.
That's according to scientists who say they've found a link between brain power and instrumental music, such as classical and jazz.
More than four-hundred students were observed for the study, which took place in Croatia and was conducted by research scholars from Oxford Brookes University.
Their results showed that people with lower intellect preferred music with lyrics, rather than complex orchestrations.
It reaffirms the popular theory by Satoshi Kanazawa, known as the Savanna-IQ hypothesis, which links intellect with novel or uncommon stimuli.
Detailed: More than four-hundred students were observed for the study, which took place in Croatia and was conducted by research scholars from Oxford Brookes University
The study's author, Elena Racevska, surveyed 467 teenagers by asking them to perform an intelligence test.
They were then asked to rank musical genres in order of preference.
Those who earned the highest IQ scores displayed a clear preference for instrumental music, it found.
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One thing that is immediately clear when you start asking scientists about their favourite music is that they have varied tastes. There is no specific type of “scientists’ favourite music”. I asked scientists on Twitter to tell me their favourite music, and the responses covered almost every genre.
A lot of scientists listen to different kinds of music depending on what they’re doing at that moment. Energetic music keeps them active in the lab while running experiments, but they might switch to classical or instrumental music when they need to sit down to write a paper.
This variety in music choice – both between individual scientists and for different situations – is part of the reason I’m skeptical when people suggests that scientists like music because they’re supposedly attracted to the mathematical concepts behind it.