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Well, I got 26 out of 26, but only by second-guessing the tonality that they expected, "what would classical music want me to do?". If you had said that #3 was
by afandian 11y ago
Well, I got 26 out of 26, but only by second-guessing the tonality that they expected, "what would classical music want me to do?".
If you had said that #3 was written by Bach, I would say it was wrong. If you had said it was by Tchaikovsky I would have said it was correct. I guessed that the test wanted me to say 'wrong' (which was the correct answer). Tchaikovsky was over a century ago and a piece of music by him would still be 'wrong'.
UNLESS I'm expected to have heard all these before.
Some of the tunes were familiar, some were not. There should be a control for 'don't know the tune' because without that the data's pretty meaningless.
- logicallee 11y agoAre you an American? As an American I found all of these very familiar, and they're explicitly patriotic, like yankee doodle, the national anthem, my country 'tis of thee, and so forth. Others like La Cucaracha would be very familiar to Americans.
- afandian 11y agoNo. Do I need to be? The landing page doesn't mention it. This may be an NIH study, but NIH studies aren't limited to American participants. Of course I know some of them, but a handful are unknown to me.