Post by Teh Donut on Aug 10, 2010 23:33:46 GMT -5
You know you wanna
jakemandell.com
The fourth category is music tests he created (either solo or as part of a team) in his medical research. Interesting stuff. You know you wanna give them a try.
Tonedeaf: 77.8%
(57th Percentile)
(70% is Normal)
The test measures musical memory (your ability to remember a phrase of notes) and tonedeafness (or the inability to distinguish two similar phrases of notes). He says "the test is purposefully made very hard, so excellent musicians rarely score above 80% correct," so I don't feel so bad about my score. I had no problem with the latter...but my inexplicably horrid short-term memory killed me on the longer phrases.
Rhythm Test: 72% Correct
(44th Percentile)
(60% is Normal, average test-takers scored 71%, StDev of +/- 10.8%)
Essentially the Tonedeaf test, but with rhythm instead of pitch. No excuses; mediocre results. Actually surprised I did as well as I did, considering these were much harder to remember than the tonedeaf test phrases. Had much more going on.
Adaptive Pitch Differentiation:
At 500 Hz, I can reliably differentiate two tones 0.35625 Hz apart.
(97.5th Percentile)
(Normal is 6 Hz, Good is 1.5 Hz, and Exceptional is 0.75 Hz)
Measures your ability to differentiate between two sounds of differing pitch. I was able to get down to 0.046875 Hz difference before my ears couldn't take any more beeping, and fatigue set in. No, really. It was exhausting. @_@
Associative Musical Visual Intelligence:
Pitch Discrimination: 95.7%
Musical Memory: 97%
Contour Discrimination: 91.6%
Attention: 92.5% (The Mother would beg to differ)
Abstraction: 94.3%
Total Score of 95%
(Normal is 70%; Average score 72%, StDev at 15.6%)
This one's difficult to describe. It essentially measures the five intelligences above: Pitch Discrimination is the ability to perceive if one note is higher/lower than another, Musical Memory is the ability to store and recall a phrase in short-term memory, Contour Discrimination is the ability to detect if a phrase is "rising" or "falling", Attention is the ability to focus on a complex problem without getting distracted, and Abstraction is the ability to recognize common rules and similarities across domains. The total score more or less takes the average of all 5. That really doesn't do it justice, though...it's somewhat complicated.
jakemandell.com
The fourth category is music tests he created (either solo or as part of a team) in his medical research. Interesting stuff. You know you wanna give them a try.
Tonedeaf: 77.8%
(57th Percentile)
(70% is Normal)
The test measures musical memory (your ability to remember a phrase of notes) and tonedeafness (or the inability to distinguish two similar phrases of notes). He says "the test is purposefully made very hard, so excellent musicians rarely score above 80% correct," so I don't feel so bad about my score. I had no problem with the latter...but my inexplicably horrid short-term memory killed me on the longer phrases.
Rhythm Test: 72% Correct
(44th Percentile)
(60% is Normal, average test-takers scored 71%, StDev of +/- 10.8%)
Essentially the Tonedeaf test, but with rhythm instead of pitch. No excuses; mediocre results. Actually surprised I did as well as I did, considering these were much harder to remember than the tonedeaf test phrases. Had much more going on.
Adaptive Pitch Differentiation:
At 500 Hz, I can reliably differentiate two tones 0.35625 Hz apart.
(97.5th Percentile)
(Normal is 6 Hz, Good is 1.5 Hz, and Exceptional is 0.75 Hz)
Measures your ability to differentiate between two sounds of differing pitch. I was able to get down to 0.046875 Hz difference before my ears couldn't take any more beeping, and fatigue set in. No, really. It was exhausting. @_@
Associative Musical Visual Intelligence:
Pitch Discrimination: 95.7%
Musical Memory: 97%
Contour Discrimination: 91.6%
Attention: 92.5% (The Mother would beg to differ)
Abstraction: 94.3%
Total Score of 95%
(Normal is 70%; Average score 72%, StDev at 15.6%)
This one's difficult to describe. It essentially measures the five intelligences above: Pitch Discrimination is the ability to perceive if one note is higher/lower than another, Musical Memory is the ability to store and recall a phrase in short-term memory, Contour Discrimination is the ability to detect if a phrase is "rising" or "falling", Attention is the ability to focus on a complex problem without getting distracted, and Abstraction is the ability to recognize common rules and similarities across domains. The total score more or less takes the average of all 5. That really doesn't do it justice, though...it's somewhat complicated.