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gdub411
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Topic: Does prog make you smart? Posted: January 09 2005 at 13:44 |
Recently my uncle had told me of an experiment someone made. They took two normal people who listened to standard pop music and gave them a variety of acedemic tests to guage their I.Q and their level of knowledge.
After that they had one person listen to rap for an entire month while the other listened to classical music.
Afterwards they retested them and found the one who listened to rap actually scored lower than he did a month earlier and the one who listened to classical scored higher.
1st I was wondering if anyone has heard of this or is this just a bunch of mularkey?
2nd, if it is true, could the same hold true for someone who listens to progressive rock, would they actually get smarter like the guy who listened to classical.(that obviously hasn't been the case for me.)
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 13:50 |
Nope, I believe you have to be already stupid to listen rap
(Just a joke)
Iván
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 13:53 |
The classical music phenomenon has been (controversially) documented before - I think there was a study called The Mozart Effect (or something along those lines). I've not heard about any specific study relating to rap, but I'd imagine similar effects would be associated with styles like death metal, hardore punk and anything my neighbour's teenagers play at 2 am when their parents are away.
I also recall a study which showed that plants grow better if you play them classical music, but worse if you play them hard rock. I always leave my radio tuned to radio 3 if we're away for a few days and my plants seem to thrive on it. This would bear out Lemmy's boast about Motorhead: "If we moved in next door to you, your lawn would die".
Having said that, IQ tests prove nothing more than your ability to do well in IQ tests. Anybody who wants to join MENSA should be forced to read a copy of 'The Mismeasure of Man' by Stephen Jay Gould first.
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 13:55 |
"If we moved in next door to you, your lawn would die".
Must be the wart
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Reed Lover
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 13:58 |
gdub411 wrote:
1st I was wondering if anyone has heard of this or is this just a bunch of mularkey?
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It beggars belief!
I reckon if you try hard enough, you can prove anything you want in a lab situation!
Total cobblers!
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:00 |
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:01 |
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:04 |
well its probably because the music is more complex, if you listen(not hear)mozart and then britney spears i dont think u would learn much from britney, but maybe thats just a load of crap since music can react in different ways for each people.
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gdub411
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:09 |
Recently I told this girl who happens to be an avid rap listener this experiment and she said "It was a bunch of crap!
I told her a classical music listener would have said it more articulately like: That is a great deal of defacation or such
Later she had forgotten where she had left her purse and asked if I knew where it was and I told her " If you'd listen to classical music you'd remember."
Her reply to that was "#@%#%^"......
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:10 |
I remember a laboratory test involving laboratory-rats.
When a group of scientists studied these rats and one of them began to laugh on what the Rats were doing the other scientist began to laugh too, for they wouldn't want to be the one left holding the joke.
Anyway scientific tests can prove anything you want them to prove.
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:11 |
Oh Rats !!
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:14 |
Anyone on this Forum who thinks all Rap music is unintelligent is ignorant.
IMHO.
See one of them is a Doctor for Christssake!
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:16 |
Sorry !!!!!!! Witch Doctor might that be ?????
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:43 |
Your uncle told you of an experiment that was made, huh? Any idea where
this study was done, where the results were published? Sorry, my urban
legend detector is going bonkers here.
Rap does not make you stupid. Believe it or not, there is good hip hop
out there. As with any style of music, the best is not necessarily
represented on the radio. And even one of the most popular albums of
the past couple years--Outkast's Speakerboxx/The Love Below-- is also
one of the best albums regardless of genre from the past ten years.
Andre 3000 is the Frank Zappa of hip hop. Don't tune out anything from
ignorance. Give it an honest listen first.
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:44 |
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:47 |
Is Andre dead already then
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:50 |
ZAPPA WOULD TURN IN HIS GRAVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:57 |
Zappa was a square just like you old guyz
see how you are like old grandads, oh music of today it all noise. Not Kool you guyz.
Tails Of Topografic ocean that is one kool album .
dre & eminem rock, the kidz luv them
pioe and sliper bregade here again.
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:57 |
How do you know, without listening? Does having rapping on a song
automatically remove any other good aspects the song could have?
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Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:59 |
Shocktaktix wrote:
Zappa was a square just like you old guyz
see how you are like old grandads, oh music of today it all noise. Not Kool you guyz.
Tails Of Topografic ocean that is one kool album .
dre & eminem rock, the kidz luv them
pioe and sliper bregade here again.
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I guess that settles it conclusively.................
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