Hello Vilik.
Interesting observations. I would interject one
admonition, however; the ORIGINAL plant/music experimentations documented for
dissemination to the general public were conducted by Dorothy Retalach of
Denver, Colorado.........I believe.
Based upon my information, her evaluations were instigated
by a second party, who had encountered some unexplainable phenomena related to
music and plant growth/health. Thereafter, she was encouraged to conduct her,
now famous, experitments. I was unaware that Ms. Retalach ever made any public
statements of a personal bias in music-----one way or the other. Her protocols
have been copied many times since the mid-70s, by various
individuals.........some of whom have written treatises and books on their
findings..........and in the process insinuating or claiming THEIR work to be
original. While not a pundit in this field, I have been exposed to a
reasonable amount of fact and primary data. I am not attempting to be
adversarial, but would caution all to be suspect of pontifications--------even
from me.
Sincerely. Brooks.
Vilik Rapheles wrote:
> 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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