Very interesting

My father cannot smell, but he's had that all his life.

a lack of smell I mean

That's really long. I am now curious what other neurological conditions a loss of sense of smell could be predictive of.

Oh, I assume that what's more important is not the lack of smell itself, but the alteration in it.

If that's how you were born, it might be benign.

But, if it CHANGES, because it's such a sensitive sensory organ, it can be predictive of a decline in some area.

If I lose my sense of smell, I'll be a little uneasy knowing this

Note that the study specifically calls out an alteration.

@da britian i think so

if its on SABC but i dont pay for tv anymore

I was also reading something about musical preferences and IQ.

Apparently, there is a correlation between intelligence and the type of music you prefer.

Huh

I want to know more

It might be a common stereotype, but it was interesting to see the trope of the high IQ person preferring classical music validated in research.

Sorry to say, but rap music, independent of ethnicity, was ranking lowest.

lel

I don't like rap, I am safe

haha

Repetitive, thumping music was preferred by subjects with lower IQ.

However, autism appears to not affect music preference, in general.

"As a consequence of frequent limbic alterations, autistic persons could judge pleasant and unpleasant music in an unusual manner. We explored this possibility by using consonant and dissonant music (test 2) and excluded the eventuality that they could prefer other auditory stimuli by comparing familiar music to environmental sounds (test 1). In both tests, severe autistics and controls were asked to listen under two conditions (familiar music versus environmental sounds; pleasant versus unpleasant music) in a counterbalanced order while the time spent during each condition was measured. Both groups significantly preferred the musical task and the pleasant music condition. No difference between groups was detected. Results demonstrate that severely autistic subjects share with healthy people the same musical preferences."

"could judge" is a bad wording here, because you don't know if this is a conjunctive or a past tense, necessarily. A better phrasing would have been "might be expected to", for example.

Err, subjunctive.

Aha.

But still, interesting finding.

for sure

And the authors are right to suspect autism's effect on the limbic structures to impact music taste.

But, our music preference or ability to perceive music does not seem to depend on those areas of our brain.

Boso, Marianna, et al. "Exploring musical taste in severely autistic subjects." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1169.1 (2009): 332-335.

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Langmeyer, Alexandra, Angelika Guglhör-Rudan, and Christian Tarnai. "What do music preferences reveal about personality?." Journal of individual differences (2012).

"The present study is the first to examine the relationship between music preferences and personality among a sample of young Germans (N = 422, age range 21–26 years). We replicated the factor structure of the Short Test of Music Preferences (STOMP, Rentfrow & Gosling, 2003) by means of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The validity of the STOMP was also confirmed for the first time by rating soundclips. The relationship between the dimensions of personality (Big Five Inventory) and music preferences (STOMP and soundclips) was analyzed with a structural equation model (SEM). Gender differences were examined with multigroup analyses (MGA). Our findings corroborate earlier findings on the relationship between music preferences and personality: Individuals open to experience prefer reflective and complex music (e.g., classical) and intense and rebellious music (e.g., rock), whereas they dislike upbeat and conventional types of music (e.g., pop music). Extraverts, on the other hand, prefer upbeat and conventional and energetic and rhythmic types of music (e.g., rap/hip-hop). The results reveal some gender differences."

I do prefer classical

Are you introverted or extroverted?

I listen to the classical station, and have for years

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand classical music

Yes, if you want to understand the composition.

I'm more introverted

I like classical because the sound is more beautiful and it is less repetitive

Yes, I hate repetitive.