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Activity Number:
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21
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, August 11, 2002 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Biometrics Section*
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| Abstract - #300706 |
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Title:
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Does Music Improve Mathematical Reasoning? A Statistical Critique
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Author(s):
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Danielle Braak*+ and Chamont Wang+
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Affiliation(s):
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College of New Jersey and College of New Jersey
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Address:
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127 Grace St. , Jersey City, New Jersey, 07307, usa 16 Hardley Drive, Cranbury, New Jersey, 08512, USA
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Keywords:
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t-test ; neurological model ; spatial-temporal reasoning ; confounding factor ; Mozart effect ; randomization
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Abstract:
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In their popular book, Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (2001), Moore and McCabe guided students in the use of standard 2-sample t-procedures to conclude that "Music training causes long-term enhancement of preschool children's spatial-temporal reasoning." This conclusion is based on a study by Rauscher, Shaw, and four other coworkers published in a 1997 issue of Neurological Research. In the review of the 1997 article, we found that more than 80% of study subjects were not randomized and that a number of serious confounding factors could easily throw the analysis off the rail. In addition, we identified a number of studies in Nature and Psychological Science that contradict Rauscher and Shaw's neurological model, the "keyboard effect," in their 1997 paper.
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