Prog Rock Vindicated!

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   I'm not a psychologist, so I don't know. Based on my observations of posts on these forums, I'd say some are open, and some are not so open. I think they lean more open overall, but personalities are a lot more complex than this.
Anyway, the original article and supporting material is located here: https://osf.io/nfqb9/

In the Study 1 folder, and then in the Materials subfolder is a zip file containing all the excerpts used in the study. Not everything in the "Rock/Sophisticated" section is prog rock. I recognized Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb and a Police song. I didn't recognize the other pieces. There are different levels of complexity to each one.

I think the blogger who posted about this article is making an intellectual leap I don't think the results necessarily support. Statistically, open personalities are interested in sophisticated music is the only conclusion I can come up with; the key words being "statistically" and "sophisticated." The original article itself makes no mention of progressive rock.

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progaardvark Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Crossover/Symphonic/RPI Teams Joined: June 14 2007 Location: Sea of Peas Status: Offline Points: 52256	Post Options Post Reply Quote progaardvark Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 12 2018 at 10:38
	I'm not a psychologist, so I don't know. Based on my observations of posts on these forums, I'd say some are open, and some are not so open. I think they lean more open overall, but personalities are a lot more complex than this. Anyway, the original article and supporting material is located here: https://osf.io/nfqb9/ In the Study 1 folder, and then in the Materials subfolder is a zip file containing all the excerpts used in the study. Not everything in the "Rock/Sophisticated" section is prog rock. I recognized Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb and a Police song. I didn't recognize the other pieces. There are different levels of complexity to each one. I think the blogger who posted about this article is making an intellectual leap I don't think the results necessarily support. Statistically, open personalities are interested in sophisticated music is the only conclusion I can come up with; the key words being "statistically" and "sophisticated." The original article itself makes no mention of progressive rock.
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wiz_d_kidd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 13 2018 Location: EllicottCityMD Status: Offline Points: 1431	Post Options Post Reply Quote wiz_d_kidd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 12 2018 at 07:25
	This was the title of an article written by Steven Hayward in a blog called Power Line. In it, he cites a psychological study that performed personality tests on a group of 22,252 individuals, and then asked them to rate different snippets of previously unpublished music. The study concluded that people who liked sophisticated music were more open. He concluded that sophisticated music refers to prog rock -- even though he admits a "deplorable taste for prog rock". There are some interesting comments to his article that follow. The article can be found here: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/04/prog-rock-vindicated.php So, do you think prog rock fans are more "open", than say pop or country music fans?