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The article is predictably coy about the fact that music is, well, bad for concentration. Studies tend to find that people work better in a quiet environment. [
by MaxBarraclough 6y ago
The article is predictably coy about the fact that music is, well, bad for concentration. Studies tend to find that people work better in a quiet environment. [0]
The article is rather scattershot, with much of it having nothing to do with music.
[0] https://www.gwern.net/docs/music-distraction/2012-shih.pdf https://www.gwern.net/docs/music-distraction/2012-shih.pdf
- victorkolb 6y agoThanks for good paper! As far as I can tell, the paper says about compare two groups: first was listening music with lyrics and second was listening music without lyrics?
- victorkolb 6y agoSorry, my bad! Two groups also had performance score without background music.
- gwern 6y agoThe music distraction literature is really scattershot and heterogeneous, so you can pull out whatever subset you like. The best meta-analysis I know of is "The impact of background music on adult listeners: A meta-analysis" https://www.gwern.net/docs/music-distraction/2011-kampfe.pdf https://www.gwern.net/docs/music-distraction/2011-kampfe.pdf , Kampfe et al 2011.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoInteresting, thanks for that.