Heavy Metal Music: A Teenager’s Perspective Like a lot of other kids my age, I l
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Heavy Metal Music: A Teenager’s Perspective
Like a lot of other kids my age, I like to listen to heavy metal music. Like a lot of other parents, mine complain about the type of music I listen to…..all the time. They think that my listening to heavy metal music is going to make me sad and depressed. I always tell them they’re wrong—my friends and I all listen to heavy metal music, and we are some of the happiest people I know!
I knew that the only way to get them to back off was to prove to them that they were wrong, so I did some research. I found the one and only article that seems to be out there about the effects of heavy metal music on mood.
In this study, 80 participants were randomly put into one of two groups. In one group, the participants were told that they could not listen to heavy metal music for one whole month. In the other group, the participants had to listen to heavy metal music for two hours every day for a month.
After the month was over, everyone had to fill out a survey with a lot of different rating questions. There were so many different questions that no one who participated could have guessed that depression was being studied.
The main question that the researchers were interested in was how the participants rated their anxiety/emotional level. So the key question was “What is your current emotional state,” and the participants answered by circling either “anxious” or “not anxious.” The researchers were unaware of which condition the participants were in when they did the final data analyses.
The researchers found that 60% of the participants who listened to heavy metal music reported feeling anxious, as did 58% of the participants who did not listen to the music at all. This was not a statistically significant difference.
So, what does all this mean for me? Well, it means that even though my parents admitted to me that I was right—I’m not going to become depressed from listening to heavy metal music—they still don’t want me to listen to it. But, the take-home message for all the other teens and their parents out there is this: Listening to heavy metal music is not going to lead to depression, so listen to it as much as you like!
Which of the following are true (there may be more than 1):
- Poor or missing comparison group
- No Random assignment
- DV could be more sensitive, accurate, or precise
- DV is not scored objectively
- DV is not valid
- subject/participant bias
- mortality or attrition
- small sample size
- poor sample selection
- experimenter bias
- premature generalization of results
- confuse correlation with causation
Explanation / Answer
In this topic , where the Heavy metal music groups generally sing sad songs & the children at aparticular age ( teen agers) may move to depression side. this all depends on the individuals, how they are carried away with emotions .
2) Teenagers perspective : the effects of listening sad songs by heavy metal music all the time. as the surveys result that from 80 participants ,two divided groups a) not to listen heavy metals music was58% but the listeners reported who were anxious tolisten were 58% & the other group to listen music for two hrs daily were 60%.. These statstical figure dont submit accurate results as the difference in percentage is almost same. NO conclusion can be derived.
1)poor or missing comparison group.
2) Dependent variable (DV) could be more senstive,accurate.or precise.
3) premature generalization of results - to take any decesion.
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