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

[TubularCorporation]

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

 

 

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.

[zaphod]

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

[flacid]

[Extralife]

Pseudo-pseudoscience?

[Tricone RC]

people with autism are just extreme

[modey]

 

people with autism are just extreme

 

[Extralife]

*nerd voice*

 

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

[usagi]

High on empathy:

• “Hallelujah” – Jeff Buckley

 

         

[Enthusiast]

Oh cool a graph

[Braintree]

So was this for a college stats class or something?

[Taupe Beats]

 

High on empathy:

• “Hallelujah” – Jeff Buckley

 

         

 

 

 

My ex is proof that claim is bullshit