{"id":1207,"date":"2008-09-09T08:43:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T15:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2008\/09\/you_are_what_you_listen_to\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T08:43:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T15:43:43","slug":"you_are_what_you_listen_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/you_are_what_you_listen_to.php","title":{"rendered":"You are what you listen to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/scotland\/7598549.stm\">oddly broad-brushed research report out of Edinburgh<\/a> makes the radical discovery that the type of music you like has some correlation to your personality. In what is claimed to be the largest such study ever undertaken, Professor Adrian North surveyed 36,000 people about their musical preference and their personality, then analyzed the resulting clusters. Any surprises? Says Prof. North:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8220;One of the most surprising things is the similarities between fans of<br \/>\nclassical music and heavy metal. They&#8217;re both creative and at ease but<br \/>\nnot outgoing.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The general public has held a stereotype of heavy metal fans being<br \/>\nsuicidally depressed and of being a danger to themselves and society in<br \/>\ngeneral. But they are quite delicate things.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oddly, that&#8217;s the stereotype I had of <i>classical music<\/i> fans.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleintomusic.com\/\">actual survey for the study<\/a> does ask interesting questions about musical experience and personal meaning. The personality aspect seems only the news-grabbing headline of what might be fairly useful analysis (if you can find the actual study, please let me know) . And besides, you can&#8217;t fault a university that also hosts the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbd.hw.ac.uk\/\">International Centre for Brewing and Distilling<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><i>[ Thanks to the Dunc-man for the link! ]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An oddly broad-brushed research report out of Edinburgh makes the radical discovery that the type of music you like has some correlation to your personality. In what is claimed to be the largest such study ever undertaken, Professor Adrian North surveyed 36,000 people about their musical preference and their personality, then analyzed the resulting clusters. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-main","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}