Just found the following article. Some discussion follows:
HARD ROCK MUSIC CREATES KILLER MICE!
David Merrell, a high school student from Suffolk, Virginia, has won top
honors in
regional and state science fairs for his experiment involving mice, a
maze and
hard-rock music.
After establishing a baseline of about 10 minutes for the mice to
navigate the maze,
David started playing music 10 hours a day, then put the mice through the
maze
three times a week for three weeks.
His findings: the control-group mice, which did not listen to any music,
were able to
cut five minutes off their time; the mice that listened to classical
music cut 8.5
minutes off their time; and the mice that listened to hard-rock music
took 20
minutes longer to navigate the maze.
David said, "I had to cut my project short because all the hard-rock mice
killed each
other
None of the classical mice did that at all."
~~~~~~~
However...
Do you remember the notorious experiment where plants thrived to classical
music and withered with rock? Well, subsequently it was determined that the
person doing the experiment loved classical music and hated rock. When a
person was found who loved rock, and that person did the experiment, the
results were reversed.
I read the original news story about David and the killer mice. (Washington
Times, 2 July 1997.) It was clear he went into the experiment with
predetermined beliefs about hard rock.
"Don't let your kids listen to hard rock music," he said. "I think it has
a major negative effect." TO PROVE HIS POINT (captials added) David
assembled three separate groups of 24 mice..."
Kind of calls in question most scientific research, because most scientists
go into an experiment with a bias. So...do experiments prove "facts", or do
they prove the belief system of the researcher?
Hmmm....
~^^V^^~
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