What music hear smart people?

What music hear smart people?

In a previous article of mind and psychology, we could see a study that linked the preference for musical styles determined with the tendency to possess a certain personality profile. In the study that we are discussing today, Virgil Griffith, American creator of software and application developer, set out to investigate the link between the musicaltastes of the people and their academic performance. The conclusions of the study were collected in the dossier "Music That Makes You Dumb" (music that makes you stupid).



The results of this detailed analysis were found after crossing the average grade in the entrance exam to university students with the music published and shared on the social networking site Facebook. As we see, a little scientific methodology, but it is worth echo us the results found, nor be as a cornerstone towards further research evaluatingthe relationship between these two variables: intelligence and musical preferences.



Rock for intelligent and reaggeton for fools?
According to the results, young students who earned poor ratings were who liked to hear music artists such as Lil Wayne, The Used, Beyonce or Jay-Z, the genres of Hip Hop and Reggaeton being the most commonly heard by this type of students. On the contrary, those who gained a bright note in the entrance exam were crossed with the greatcomposer Ludwig Van Beethoven.



Within the sector with high ratings, also were reported repeatedly bands such as U2, Counting Crows, The Shins, Bob Dylan or the BritishRadiohead. Closely following this outstanding list of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coldplay, or groups.





The musical tastes of the average students (those who not noted neither for good nor for evil, average students) included groups like Pearl Jam, System of Down, AC/DC's legendary Australians, Oasis or TheDoors. The author of the study rated visually all data in a table that was posted on its website, and we offer below.





Discussion
The methodology of the study is certainly questionable. First of all, the study was presented in the media as the correlation found betweenthe varying intelligence and musical tastes, when really the researchnot measured strictly none of them. With regard to the first, it should be noted that establish a total symmetry between intelligence and academic performance is quite imprecise. With regard to the second, it is likely that what we share on Facebook is not a reliable criterion tomeasure our tastes and preferences.



Furthermore, it should be explained that, obviously, there is no scientific evidence that allows to say that there is a certain type of music that makes us "more intelligent" or "dumber". It is a statistical question,mere correlation. We will have to further investigate to see up to what point there some sort of relationship between the level of intelligence and the preference by some or other musical groups.