Klarinet Archive - Posting 000208.txt from 2002/09

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Music/Academics studies?
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:12:12 -0400

Unfortunately neither link is currently working.

After all this, does anyone have any pointers to real studies done? As
Forest mentioned, statistics can be misused, and hopefully a peer-reviewed
and published study will account for external factors. Just because I _want_
good music education to influence academic studies doesn't mean that it
actually _does_.

Yes, I want it to - it makes "sense" to me that it would. Which is why I
need to have studies done by people who probably _don't_ want it to affect
academics. It's easy to subtly bias our results - the rationale for
peer-reviewed journals.

Remember the 1st thing you learn in Statistics 101 - correlation does not
imply causation.

Mark C.

-----Original Message-----
From: David C Kumpf [mailto:dkumpf@-----.com]
Subject: RE: [kl] Music/Academics studies?

Take a look at:

http://www.fatlady.org/why_music_ed.htm

(Disclaimer: I developed and maintain the web site for the
Conservatory...referencing it since I knew the links were handy.)

Dave Kumpf
dkumpf@-----.com

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