Your music taste tells people how dumb you are: psychologists

LONDON (Web Desk) – Psychologists are trying to figure out what choice of music depicts about their personality and intellect.

In 2003, psychologists Jason Rentfrow and Sam Gosling said most people’s musical preferences fell into one of four categories: reflective and complex; upbeat and conventional; energetic and rhythmic; and intense and rebellious.

According to data tabulated analysing students at the University of Texas about what music they liked, they concluded that extraverts like  bass based songs , while people who are more creative and have higher IQs enjoy listening to jazz and classical music.

Another study at Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University found that people who liked pop music tended to be honest but lacked creativity while those who admire rap had high self-esteem; people who listened to heavy metal were gentle but lacked confidence while people who liked jazz and classical music were found to be highly intelligent and self-confident respectively.

Software writer Virgil Griffith also studied what a person’s favourite music links to his intellect.He plotted the most liked acts and genres on Facebook by students  against those colleges’ SAT scores and uncovered a “correlation between musical tastes and dumbitude (smartitude too)!”.

Virgil study says that smartest college students mostly like Radiohead, Beethoven and Bob Dylan, while people who listen to Beyonce and gospel music tend to be less smart. Mediocres mostly prefer Coldplay, Maroon 5 and Snow Patrol.