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Igel

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4. Probably not.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sun Apr 7, 2013, 12:19 AM

Apr 2013

Causality is the key. Do smart or hard-working/persistent kids stick with instrument performance or does instrumental performance produce smart and/or hard-working/persistent kids.

The assumption was the latter was true--music education bred either discipline or smarts. But the research always hedged by saying that this is, really, a correlation.

A month or so ago research claimed that it was mere correlation. The researchers had extensive controls and when they ran the regression claimed that the correlation lost all statistical significance. So it's the former. Discipline and/or smarts permits more music participation.

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Music helps kids LEARN! [View all] elleng Apr 2013 OP

Yes--so does art. Physical Education/dance, any sort of movement, too. nt MADem Apr 2013 #1

Right, absolutely, elleng Apr 2013 #2

Yes. LWolf Apr 2013 #3

Probably not. Igel Apr 2013 #4

Links? elleng Apr 2013 #5

Our three kids are muscians. CRK7376 Apr 2013 #6