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The races vary in intellectual ability, and this extends to musical ability as well.
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Yes...The Seashore Music Test:
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I'll provide two samples of musicians, today. This will serve as an example of "outliers":
Sample One:
Sample Two("Black Musician"):
A comparison is made of the scores of 258 negroes and 219 whites, mainly from Grades VII and VIII, on the Seashore Tests of Musical Ability. The median score for the white pupils exceeds that for the colored in all tests save that for consonance, where the scores are nearly equal. When subjects with musical training are compared with the untrained, the whites are superior to both negroes and mulattoes, and mulattoes to negroes. Training is most effective upon pitch and memory, and least effective upon intensity and time. The correlations between total music score and index of brightness are: colored boys, 0.580; colored girls, 0.534; white boys, 0.700; and white girls, 0.677. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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Psychological tests used were: (1) general ability tests, (2) mechanical ability tests, (3) musical ability tests, and (4) will-temperament tests. White adults are reliably superior over negro adults in all group intelligence tests. No sex differences were established. Whites excel negroes in all the Seashore tests except rhythm. The will-temperament tests are unsuited as race-tests. White women have greater head length and width, on the average, than the negro women. There are 66 references. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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Yes...The Seashore Music Test:
She also had the Seashore Test, so I asked her to add it to the set.
The test has nothing to do with sandy beaches. It's a test of musical ability devised by psychology professor Carl Emil Seashore. I did well on the test, but there's a great chasm between my ability and that of a fine musician. The Seashore test was used through WW-II, but today it's pretty well fallen out of fashion.
Now here's an article in a 1922 Scientific American. It asks, "Are You a Musician?" It describes the results of Seashore's sixteen years of work on the test. It shows him listening through earphones to phonograph records of sounds. He tests five kinds of musical ability: discrimination of pitches, dissonance, rhythmical figures, and intensity; as well as an ability to remember melodies.
In our electronic age, we're jolted by some of his apparatus. He has to use complex machinery to do what electronics makes so easy today. He's created special motor drives whose speed doesn't vary and systems of pulleys to generate reproducible pitches. He's made a special set of tuning forks.
The Seashore Test
Today, we hone our ears. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. Years ago, I was offered a battery of preference tests to determine what field I should be in. The...
I'll provide two samples of musicians, today. This will serve as an example of "outliers":
Sample One:
[UWSL]Comprehensive genomic analyses associate[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]UGT8[/UWSL]
variants with musical ability in a Mongolian
population
[UWSL]Hansoo Park,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]1,2[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]Seungbok Lee,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]1,3[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]Hyun-Jin Kim,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]1,3[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]Young Seok Ju,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]1,4[/UWSL]
[UWSL]Jong-Yeon Shin,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]1,5[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]Dongwan Hong,[/UWSL][UWSL]1,6[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]Marcin von Grotthuss,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]2[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]Dong-Sung Lee,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]1,3[/UWSL]
[UWSL]Changho Park,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]7[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]Jennifer Hayeon Kim,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]1[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]Boram Kim,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]1[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]Yun Joo Yoo,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]8[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]Sung-Il Cho,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]9[/UWSL]
[UWSL]Joohon Sung,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]9[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]Charles Lee,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]2[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]Jong-Il Kim,[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]1,3,5,7[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]Jeong-Sun Seo[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]1,3,4,5[/UWSL]
[UWSL]Results[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]We found signi[/UWSL][UWSL]fi[/UWSL][UWSL]cant evidence of linkage at[/UWSL]
4q23 with the nearest marker D4S2986 (LOD=3.1),
whose supporting interval overlaps a previous study in
[UWSL]Finnish families, and identi[/UWSL][UWSL]fi[/UWSL][UWSL]ed an intergenic single[/UWSL]
nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (rs1251078,
[UWSL]p=8.4×10[/UWSL][UWSL]−[/UWSL][UWSL]17[/UWSL]
[UWSL]) near[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]UGT8[/UWSL][UWSL], a gene highly expressed in[/UWSL]
the central nervous system and known to act in brain
[UWSL]organisation. In addition, a non-synonymous SNP in[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]UGT8[/UWSL]
was revealed to be highly associated with musical ability
[UWSL](rs4148254, p=8.0×10[/UWSL][UWSL]−[/UWSL][UWSL]17[/UWSL]
), and a 6.2 kb copy number
[UWSL]loss near[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]UGT8[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]showed a plausible association with[/UWSL]
[UWSL]musical ability ( p=2.9×10[/UWSL][UWSL]−[/UWSL][UWSL]6[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]).[/UWSL]
[UWSL]Conclusions[/UWSL][UWSL] [/UWSL][UWSL]This study provides new insight into the[/UWSL]
genetics of musical ability, exemplifying a methodology
[UWSL]to assign functional signi[/UWSL][UWSL]fi[/UWSL][UWSL]cance to synonymous and non-[/UWSL]
coding alleles by integrating multiple experimental
methods
Sample Two("Black Musician"):
