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@OwenGregorian A while back a study seemed to indicate that heavy metal/hard rock listeners were very smart,whereas pop music folks,not so much.

Your music playlist might reveal subtle clues about your intelligence | Eric W. Dolan, PsyPost A new study published in the Journal of Intelligence suggests that a person’s everyday music listening habits contain subtle clues about their general cognitive ability. Scientists discovered that the lyrics of the songs people choose to play provide more insight into their intelligence than the musical beats or melodies do. These findings provide evidence that the digital footprints we leave behind in our daily lives could eventually help approximate cognitive skills without formal testing. Traditional intelligence assessments rely on formal tests given in highly controlled, stressful environments. Yet, cognitive abilities are used constantly to navigate the complexities of everyday life outside of the laboratory. With smartphones and digital apps capturing so much of what we do, researchers saw an opportunity to study cognitive ability in a natural setting. They chose to focus on music listening because it is a very common daily activity that engages multiple brain networks involving memory, emotion, and auditory processing. Past research linking music to intelligence has mostly relied on laboratory experiments or self-reported surveys. In those settings, people might misremember what they listen to or claim to like sophisticated music to look good. By using digital tracking data, the scientists aimed to capture exactly what people were listening to in the real world. “Most research on cognitive abilities, or intelligence in simpler terms, focuses on situations where people try to perform their best, such as tests, school performance, or job tasks. Because of that, we know a lot about how cognitive abilities relate to achievement, but much less about whether they appear in everyday, low-stakes behaviors,” said study author Larissa Sust, a postdoctoral researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. “At the same time, many daily activities now leave digital traces that allow us to study such real-life behavior more naturally than before. Our study was motivated by this gap: we wanted to see whether patterns in an everyday digital activity might also reflect differences in cognitive ability. As a starting point, we chose music listening, which is a common behavior that can easily be tracked on smartphones using custom research applications.” The researchers tracked the smartphone usage of 185 participants over a period of five months. They utilized a custom research application installed on the participants’ personal phones to log every song played. The participants also completed a short cognitive ability test on their smartphones. This test measured their capacity for fluid reasoning, vocabulary comprehension, and mathematical knowledge. These skills together make up a person’s general cognitive ability, which reflects how well someone can think rationally and adapt to new situations. Over the course of the study, the participants listened to 58,247 unique songs. The researchers then gathered detailed information about these tracks from online music databases like Spotify. They extracted audio characteristics, such as the tempo and the acoustic qualities of the sound. They also analyzed the lyrical content of the songs using a specialized linguistic tool. This tool categorized the words in the lyrics based on psychological themes, emotional tone, and social references. In total, the scientists gathered 215 different features related to audio, lyrics, and general listening habits for each participant. To make sense of this massive amount of data, the researchers employed machine learning. Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence where computer programs analyze large sets of data to identify complex patterns. They trained these computer models to see if the music listening features could predict a participant’s score on the cognitive ability test. The researchers tested different types of computer algorithms. Only the complex, nonlinear models successfully detected meaningful patterns in the data. This suggests that the relationship between music habits and intelligence is highly intricate rather than simple and direct. The computer models detected a small but reliable link between a person’s music listening behavior and their cognitive test scores. The most informative predictors were not the musical sounds, but the words within the songs. The lyrical preferences of the participants provided the strongest evidence of their cognitive ability. “When we looked more closely at how our prediction models worked and which aspects of music listening were most informative, one finding surprised us,” Sust told PsyPost. “The lyrics of the songs people listened to were more useful for predicting cognitive ability than the musical features.” “In other words, the themes and language used in the lyrics seemed to matter more than aspects like tempo or musical key. This was unexpected because previous research often suggested that melodic preferences play a larger role (e.g., when predicting personality traits), and many people assume that intelligence is mainly reflected in preferences for certain genres, such as classical or jazz music.” Specifically, the models found that people who listened to songs with less positive emotional tones tended to have higher predicted intelligence scores. The researchers suggest that sad or melancholic music might appeal to those who use music for introspection and reflection. Songs with lyrics focused on the present moment, perceived honesty, and home-related topics were also associated with higher cognitive ability. On the other hand, preferring lyrics with many social words or tentative language tended to predict lower intelligence scores. Audio characteristics contributed very little to predicting cognitive ability, with one notable exception. The models found that a preference for songs with low liveness was a strong predictor of higher intelligence. Liveness refers to the probability that a track was recorded in front of a live audience. The scientists propose that live recordings are often highly energetic and less controlled. Individuals with higher cognitive ability might prefer studio recordings because they often use music for focused, intellectual engagement rather than high-energy stimulation. Listening habits also played a role in the predictions. Participants who spent more time overall listening to music tended to have higher intelligence scores. Additionally, preferring songs in languages other than German, which was the native language of the sample, was associated with higher cognitive ability. “One key takeaway is that cognitive abilities (or intelligence) may be reflected not only in tests or high-stakes performance but also subtly in everyday behavior,” Sust explained. “In our study, patterns in people’s music listening contained small but detectable signals related to their cognitive ability, suggesting that the digital traces we leave behind in daily life could potentially help approximate intelligence.” “While music listening alone provides only limited information, combining multiple types of digital behavior (e.g., what books people read, what places they visit) in the future might make such predictions more accurate and could eventually support adaptive digital tools or early detection of cognitive decline.” While these patterns are interesting, the researchers note some potential misinterpretations and limitations. The predictive power of music listening alone was quite small, meaning an app cannot accurately judge a person’s intelligence just by looking at their playlist. “On their own, these effects are therefore likely not strong enough to be practically useful,” Sust noted. “However, they suggest that everyday digital behavior may contain small signals of cognitive differences, which could become more meaningful if combined with many other types of behavioral data.” The relationships observed in the study are purely correlational, meaning that listening to certain music does not cause a person to become smarter or vice versa. The researchers caution that other unmeasured factors, such as a person’s age, could be influencing both their intelligence test scores and their music preferences. “An important caveat is that the associations we found may be influenced by other factors, known as confounding variables,” Sust said. “For example, age could play a role, because it is related both to cognitive abilities and to the kinds of music people tend to listen to. We are currently working on follow-up analyses to better understand and account for such effects.” Read more: psypost.org/your-music-pla…

@Arkypatriot This happened because Trump is a genuinely friendly PERSON,not a politician.

This is so adorable. I thought the Japanese Prime Minister would bow. Instead she ran for a hug from the president,

@EastTNMama No thanks.

I just want people who are smart to stop saying “my wife and I” or “my husband and I” when it’s supposed to be me. This one is so very easy to fix. If you would say me you say my wife and me. —She and I went to work. He told my wife and me. I went to work. He told me. Let me help

@ShawnRyan762 @joekent16jan19 He did an interview during Biden's admin where he stated Iranian proxies had attacked American troops 150 times,and an attack on Iran would be legal. Now,its "they never posted an immediate threat?"

Sometimes the most impactful statement you can make is a strong resignation. It's unfortunate it's come down to this. God's speed @joekent16jan19 I hope this wakes some people up.

@DannyDrinksWine God forbid we should enjoy comforting movies.

Terry Gilliam on the difference between the movies of Stanley Kubrick & Steven Spielberg: “The great difference between a Kubrick and a Spielberg is, Spielberg is more successful; His films make much more money, but they’re comforting. They give you answers; always, the films are answers. I don’t think they’re very clever answers. (...) Spielberg and the success of most films in Hollywood these days, I think is down to the fact they're comforting; they tie things up in nice little bows; gives you answers even if the answers are stupid." (Terry Gilliam, TCM, 2002)

@Riffraff3232 Not guilty.A fake list released by a 'journalist' who admitted it was fake.

How the hell did Big Papi make it to the Hall of Fame and get a cushy network broadcasting gig when he is as guilty of steroids as Bonds, Clemens or Sammy Sosa… Why did he get a pass?

@F1Clapped Artificial 'racing' isn't racing,dumba$$.

Here’s the thing most people aren’t getting And I’m going to say this from a neutral camp, because I don’t care enough to die on some f1twt hill, it’s silly anyway But… the racing can be artificial while still being entertaining to watch. Read that again. The way the racing is “happening” being dependent on deployment of battery, and yo-yoing can be fun to watch, while still not being in the spirit of F1 and feeling artificial. Some fans will hate it, some won’t care because their favourites can win, its fandom, and it’s a sport that’s blown up because of documentaries, expect nearly all takes to be nothing burgers.

@there_is_no_if Well,if an ordinary driver can now drive these cars,why pay millions for a Verstappen or Russell or Hamilton?Seriously,none of these guys are on the limit,at all.

So you say you prefer DRS divebombs to this? 🤨

This is genius A video was made in the style of Disney that explains Sharia Law This makes Islam and Sharia Law easy to understand for everyone of all ages

@WallStreetApes This is my video, I made it. X

@NWSMemphis What happened to the 75+mph winds and the associated severe threats?

Sustained winds in excess of 20 mph and wind gusts exceeding 40 mph or greater are expected across the Mid-South Sunday into Sunday night. Tie down or secure items susceptible to gusty winds. #tnwx #arwx #mowx #mswx

@miles_commodore Very funny.

As a black man I don’t want DEI, but I do want fairness. For example, how come there is no restaurant called African American Barrel?

@the_zb_ If you have to ask "Is it Racing?"....its not. F1 is a joke right now,and those drivers know it,and hate it.

🇨🇳 Sprint Race - Initial Thoughts (These are my unabashed thoughts - a little spirited discussion is great, but if you’ve pre-decided you don’t want to hear it, gleefully move along) Watching the cars go so slow for energy starvation vs what an F1 car can actually do… is still really disorienting and jarring to the brain. Is it for you? My brain can’t help it, you see cars on a race lap going around a corner and you think “is it a VSC, did I miss something?” No, we’re just taking the high speed corners at 60%. 🙂‍↕️ But I’m trying to find the silver linings. It still feels tarnished, but some little glimpses of improvement compared to week 1… with other things equally bad. Ultimately, some teams have simply dropped the ball on the start procedures for their cars. Ferrari have nailed that part of it. I feel no sympathies based on how that whole dynamic has gone with the teams and the FIA, who had ample warning and chance to solve this issue with regulatory change or car design. Some chose neither, now let them sleep in that bed. Most of the “excitement” we are seeing in race trim will subside once teams get the deployment debacles sorted out, as being able to use the “overtake” button will disappear. Ironically, the poor adaptation to the regs is temporarily keeping the casual observer or those that don’t really get what is actually happening with the energy back and forth, “engaged”. It’s an easier sell for F1 to spin the yo-yo racing as “look at all the overtaking!” A little timidness from Russell kept the Ferraris in play here, but there’s still pace in the Merc to stay at arm’s length when given 4-5 laps to get position and steady themselves. SC made an otherwise easy outcome more labored. And the elephant in the room… Kimi has, thus far, not shown why he’s in a Mercedes seat. It’s not like an emergency situation for some radical in-season change, but Toto has to have some sort of timeline in his mind to see progression, before a hard decision regarding the lineup in 2027/2028. Tight racing from the Ferraris, good to see them race hard without colliding. Lewis looking racey again is very good. I didn’t expect it, but Leclerc was a little quicker, in China of all places. Not sure if that will hold up for the GP or not. But if they’re going to let the two cars race each other (which is not always the right call), they need to decide that quicker than they often do. The racing all still feels a bit hollow considering the non-human randomness of much of it. you’ve still got cars doing different electrical harvesting and deployment lap to lap while the driver is doing the exact same thing… so it’s not too fun for adaptive software to matter in racing outcomes without driver control. I’m never going to like that. But the inherent track traits of Shanghai aren’t as poor as Albert Park was. I realized that I’m not able to watch this current iteration of F1 as a fan that’s invested in outcomes. Right now it feels more distant, like an exercise of observation and reflection. I’m aware of the reduction of the human input into the outcome, so it feels disingenuous to treat it otherwise. I hope I don’t feel that way forever, because that’s a bummer. but that’s just where I’m at with it. The sport has lost some luster. I am genuinely hopeful for some adjustments inbound after Shanghai that begin to directly address these exact issues of energy starvation and how it’s led to an algorithmically driven product - if they don’t make some tweaks, it will lead further in that direction as the regs mature. What were your thoughts on the Sprint? On to GP Quali and the Feature Race.

🚨BREAKING: Formula One set to change its logo

@elonmusk What court,or sane person,votes in favor of biological males being naked in front of teenage girls?

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@antibearthesis @elonmusk Correct.

@elonmusk The real problem for the majority was that the spa was affiliated Christian If this had been a Muslim spa the outcome would’ve been reversed

@PolePositionist Push to pass is driver initiative,anywhere on track.DRS is within zones,1sec...thats artificial.

I don’t get the “artificial racing” thing the drivers and fans are throwing around. DRS was artificial, push to pash in IndyCar is artificial. Whatever tool they give to the drivers to overtake, it will be artificial.

@HustleBitch_ The women on here demonizing her for HER wake up routine are sad people.Luckily,my wife isn't an insecure,harping person like these women.Just watch and learn,or roll your eyes and move on.Not hard.

🚨 INTERNET SHOCKED AS SUPERMODEL CINDY CRAWFORD TURNS INTO A MORNING ROUTINE TIKTOKER — PEOPLE SAY THIS CAN'T BE REAL LIFE The woman who defined the 90s supermodel era just posted a TikTok showing her morning routine, and people watching it say the steps just keep multiplying. 6:00 AM wake-up. Bible app reading. Dry brushing. Then comes gua sha. She then sits on a Bemer electromagnetic mat while wearing a red-light hair growth helmet. Then red-light therapy for her face. Then an apple cider vinegar shot. Next, she walks outside barefoot to ground in the grass overlooking the ocean, sits in the jacuzzi, and later goes back outside for another round of grounding. After that, it’s collagen coffee, a mini trampoline warm-up, and a Pilates workout in the private gym at her mansion with an instructor who comes to the house. By the end of the video, the routine feels less like “getting ready for the day” and more like a full-scale celebrity wellness ritual. People watching say the same thing: Is this a morning routine… or a full time job?

@JJWatt The crazy part of the equation is that you are being asked to tip BEFORE the food is delivered and tasted.How can I be expected to "tip" before service and food?

Genuine question on a restaurant situation: You walk up to a counter to order. You find your own table and seat yourself. If you order coffee, they hand you a cup and you go fill it up yourself. If you order food, they hand you a buzzer and when it goes off, you go pick it up yourself. The iPad has a “20%, 25%, 30%, Other” tip option, with 20% already preselected. What’s your move?

@LobstahRollah @goodbreffis All brewed in large vats right here in the good ole USA with American barley!

@goodbreffis He’s not wrong! 🤣 but I’m a beer snob - only Belgium, Italian or Japanese beer for me! 🍻

The IPA guys back…