Hello everyone! So I was doing homework the other day, Just studying some note cards for my history exam. Now usually I would study with some classical music in the background but this time I wanted to conduct an experiment. I wondered if instead of listening to only classical music maybe it would benefit me to listen to rap or pop. So I turned my Ipod on and put it on shuffle. I not only realized that when my ipod is on shuffle it sounds like it is having a seizure but I found it extremely difficult to focus when the songs had words. Instead of focusing on the facts written on my cards I found myself wanting to sing along or even dance to the music. This was distracting and I was not able get much accomplished.
In a recent video we watched during class a nureo scientist put people in an MRI and had them try and rap or play jazz music on a key board. This experiment was interesting because he compared what the MRI’s results were and how they differed from one another. I do not remember the exact results but I remember that I did not care for this experiment. There were too many varying factors.
For one, I know when I go in an MRI I am not at all relaxed. The environment is annoying and extremely claustrophobic. Therefore that would affected his results. Another contributing factor is that he only studied 2 different genres on music. In my opinion there were many others he should have added to the experiment. And lastly, it annoyed me the most. I believe he had more rappers than jazz players. How can he even call that a valid and successful experiment without testing the same amount of people?!!?
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