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IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129    | I need someone who is studying full time at a University to read this and see if:
a) It makes sense
b) The argument is strong
c) It sounds proffessional
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| QUOTE | In his book Musicophilia, Dr Oliver Sacks remarks that music occupies more areas of the brain than language, and states that humans are a musical species as much as we are a linguistic one. Music’s effect on the mind has been recognized by every culture in human history. One subset of the human race is particularly influenced by music. Musicians possess a distinctly unique relationship with music. Another book, The Musical Temperament by Dr Anthony Kemp reveals that there are specific personality traits that are more common amongst musicians than non-musicians. Musical creativity demands refined motor control and complex cognitive skills, and as a result, musicians direct their energy inward, ultimately leading to personality traits such as introversion, independence, sensitivity and anxiety.
This begs the question, “If personality is influenced by musical training, can the opposite be true? Can a musician’s personality influence his or her response to music?” And leading on, to what extent does their response to a musical stimulus differ from that of non-musicians? The benefits of such information are numerous. If a parallel can be drawn between the unique personality of the musician and certain mental processes that occur in their listening to music, this can lead onto further research regarding other correlations between personality and musical stimulation. If it can be proven that different personalities resonate better or worse with different types of music, this would be of advantage in the fields of education, both musical and non-musical, and music therapy, as well as several other disciplines.
An experiment was designed to ascertain whether or not musicians respond to a musical stimulus differently to non-musicians. Twelve musicians and twelve non-musicians all between the age of 18 and 21 of both sexes were selected randomly from the student body at the University of Western Australia. It was ensured that the general moods of each participant were similar. All the volunteers had mild to medium levels of stress due to upcoming exams, and none reported any substantial feelings of anger or sadness, or any other emotion that could significantly cause their response to musical stimuli to deviate from that of the other participants. Musicians were asked for the extent of their musical training, and all participants provided a brief description of what they perceived as their overall personality.
After providing such information, the participants were placed in a quiet environment and asked to write down their conscious thoughts on paper for the duration of 10 minutes. Their instructions were to write continuously, and not filter out any thoughts. After the 10 minutes had expired, they could elect to omit any thoughts they did not wish to share. While writing, music would be playing in the background except for the control group. Those participants for whom music was playing were informed of this beforehand. They were instructed to regard the music as background music, and were not required to actively listen to it, but instead simply allow their thoughts to flow naturally.
The group of twelve musicians and twelve non-musicians was sub-divided into four groups of three. The first group would act as the control group, where no music would play. A second group would be exposed to music from the Naxos album Chill with Bach. The third group would be listening to Stockhausen’s Spiral for solo flute and electronics, and the fourth group would be listening to the Linkin Park album Underground 4.0. By using three vary disparate types of music, it could be ensured that the emergence of any unifying trait amongst the musicians and non-musicians was not limited to a single musical style.
After all 24 writing samples were collected, an analysis would be made to find any similarities and differences between the musicians and the non-musicians, and also between the different types of music. Such an analysis involved a word count, a reading of the content, and graphology.
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary describes personality as the totality of behavioral and emotional characteristics that distinguishes an individual or group. If the analyses show that the musicians possess a significantly higher count of any behavioral or emotional trait than the non-musicians, it will be assumed that this is a direct result of their personality.
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IRC Nickname: Owennnn Group: Emeritus Posts: 1447 Member No.: 37 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 55 | a) Does make sense, apart from the bit I told you about, which you have/are changing.
b) Makes for a strong argument, although the results of the experiment and their subsequent analysis would make a stronger argument, provided they gave you what you expected.
c) As a University Student, I wouldn't say it sounds proffesional as such, but does sound like a paper a University student would write, and is expected to write.
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IRC Nickname: Matt|Georgio9 Group: Emeritus Posts: 706 Member No.: 94 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | I agree with owenism. The general purpose of experiments are to prove or disprove theories wherever they may have originated from. You have your objective, that was to see if the reverse of what the author wrote may uphold some sort of truth to it. Do you expect it to show some truth? what do you expect to see as some of the results in your analysis techniques?
Don't ask me about the language point of this. I haven't written too much other than technical reports in engineering so far.
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IRC Nickname: Snowzak Group: Emeritus Posts: 1193 Member No.: 5 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 67 | Your argument isn't that strong: in the end, you claim to be analyzing someone's personality through "word count", "reading of the content" and "graphology".
It's a good report of activity, but I don't see how you could convince me or someone else of anything you're trying to prove.
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IRC Nickname: Owennnn Group: Emeritus Posts: 1447 Member No.: 37 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 55 | | QUOTE (Snowzak @ July 03, 2008 09:37 am) | Your argument isn't that strong: in the end, you claim to be analyzing someone's personality through "word count", "reading of the content" and "graphology".
It's a good report of activity, but I don't see how you could convince me or someone else of anything you're trying to prove. |
How else can you analyse someones personality than through Quantity, Content and Presentation?
It's the only criteria I can see that you could judge it on and compare by.
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IRC Nickname: Snowzak Group: Emeritus Posts: 1193 Member No.: 5 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 67 | What if I'm a sceptic concerning the analysis of one's personality through text?
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IRC Nickname: Owennnn Group: Emeritus Posts: 1447 Member No.: 37 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 55 | | QUOTE (Snowzak @ July 03, 2008 05:06 pm) | | What if I'm a sceptic concerning the analysis of one's personality through text? |
As am I Zach, that's why experiments like this are good. They can disprove theories as well.
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