Klarinet Archive - Posting 000211.txt from 2002/09

From: "David C Kumpf" <dkumpf@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Music/Academics studies?
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 10:15:50 -0400

Thanks Mark. I haven't run a link check recently. I'll have to run these
down.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Charette [mailto:charette@-----.org]
> Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 7:12 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Music/Academics studies?
>
>
> 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]
> Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 8:58 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> 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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