You wrote: << If popularity and the word standard are in anyway connected then with Mozart's music it's no contest. Type 'Mozart' into YouTube and see how may

You wrote: << If popularity and the word standard are in anyway connected then with Mozart's music it's no contest. Type 'Mozart' into YouTube and see how may hits you get.>> While not specifically SAYING: "Mozart's music is the best there is.", the implication gathered from your statement is that: Mozart is very popular (as per YT hits) and Popularity is connected to "standard" Hence: the conclusion: Mozart is a standard for good music (if not best, given the very high number of hits on YT.). In any case, my beef is with the original article since it blurted out "Mozart effect", thus, again, automatically and unqualifyingly placing Mozart in the pedestal of music that is good enough to make you smarter..... That they chose Mozart but no OTHER music, therefore, implies, that they consider Mozart to be the standard of good music--the best music, as it were--for improving IQ outcomes.