Does music really help?

This topic submitted by Maureen Harter, Jessica Karle, Jessica Lawrence, Andrea Rose, Chris Holzwart ( meh3385@yahoo.com ) on 12/14/03 .

Natural Systems 1 Syllabus---Western Program---Miami University

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Abstract
In our experiment we saw the effects of different types of music, specifically rock, rap, country, classical, pop and a control of no music on people's ability to comprehend materials. We either asked them math questions or asked them simple questions on a given article. Our hypothesis was that classical music would have the highest level of comprehension and accuracy. The importance of this experiment helped us to determine which type of music helps comprehension, then we, as college students, can utilize this in our studying and reading habits regularly. We found that there was no significance between genres according to the Scheffes test, yet there was significance overall. Our conclusion states that we accept the null hypothesis but there is error that was present through the experiment and our data shows some significance in favor of our alternative hypothesis but not drastic enough to fail Scheffes test. For instance, there are more questions that were answered wrong for country music during the reading test and the least amount of questions wrongly answered for ready were from the classical and Enya genres (this supports our alternative hypothesis). In all data showing the number of questions answered wrong Enya and Classical music have lower frequencies of questions answered wrong in comparison to the other genres of music.

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