"What our music tastes say about our personalities" aka "the dumbest thing about music I've read in a long time."

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/07/music-and-personality/399749/

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Music taste has long been thought to offer a window to the soul. (Past research has found, for example, that open-minded people are more likely to enjoy the blues, jazz, and folk, while extraverts like pop, electronica, and religious music.)

Here's a completely meaningless diagram that correlates subjective, vague ideas with the psudoscience of "personality types" :

Even with my face as deep in my palm as it is, I still noticed they misspelled "extrovert" on top of everything else.  Good job, The Atlantic.

oh cool a bunch of unfalsifiable claims about something totally subjective i'll be sure to take this seriously

Pseudo-pseudoscience?

people with autism are just extreme

  On 7/18/2018 at 12:53 AM, Tricone RC said:

 

people with autism are just extreme

 

*nerd voice*

“Well there are many different sub genres of electronica...”

High on empathy:

• “Hallelujah” – Jeff Buckley

Oh cool a graph

So was this for a college stats class or something?

  On 7/18/2018 at 3:22 AM, usagi said:

 

High on empathy:

• “Hallelujah” – Jeff Buckley

 

         

 

 

My ex is proof that claim is bullshit