[Dixielandjazz] How Well Do You Hear Music?

[David Richoux]

I got 72% yesterday (with many distractions including a vacuum  
cleaner) and 83% today (no distractions and listening with headphones)  
and that is about what I had predicted.

The second time I found myself trying to figure out which rock songs  
some of the lines came from!  It was an interesting test, and a lot  
more fun than the ones they give at the audiologist ;-) I do agree  
that it is not a perfect test.

Dave Richoux

On Nov 30, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Stephen G Barbone wrote:

>> Gluetje1 at aol.com  wrote   about the test at: http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/OnlineScreen450.swf
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>> This test is curious.  It does not, in my case, have much retest
>> reliability.  I took it about a year ago, scored somewhere in high  
>> normal  range, took it
>> again a few hours later and increased my score by about  25 per  
>> cent as I
>> recall.  I don't consider tone deafness  correctable in a matter of  
>> hours.  Focus
>> IS correctable within minutes  or hours.  I agree it is testing  
>> musical
>> memory which Jake  Mandell says it does during his discussion in  
>> other web pages.