Waitman Gobble

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:14:15 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Metal scientists declare metal good for the brain.

According to science, metal is the most “intelligent” genre of music you can listen to - and these are its most intelligent bands

Metalheads are boffins, actually, and these bands prove it

Marshall Sutherland

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:21:28 -0400 from hubzilla

Do intelligent lyrics count if you can't actually understand the words they are using. I don't mean "I don't know what that word means", I mean "What were those words?"

Bill Statler

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:28:28 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

Argh.

"Lexical diversity" study:

More different words equals intelligence?
Doesn't matter whether the lyrics can be understood (as Marshall Sutherland noted).
Only covers 1960-present.
Only covers popular music.
Only 7 genres of music exist.

"Productivity and career success" study:

Wow, now there are 15 genres. One of them is classical, which spans something like a thousand years but strangely all sounds the same?
They surveyed 1000 people. How did they ensure the selection was random?
People assessed their own productivity.
Argh!

Anyway, here's the link to this "science":
https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/blog/most-intelligent-music-artists/