PSY387H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bipedalism, Sexual Selection, Relative Pitch
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Performance on the melody subtest had a modest positive association with performance on the rhythm. Mean levels of performance were almost identical for the two subtests: melody m = 38. 51, sd = 5. 93, rhythm m = 38. 20, sd = 4. 67. There is a weaker positive association in the class (which is usually around 0. 5) Duration of private music training had a positive association with performance on the meldoy subtest: you can see that the line is almost flat. In terms of significance, it is not a complete horizontal line. Duration of playing music regularly had no association with performance on the rhythm subtest. Subjective ratings of musicality had a strong association with performance on the melody subtest: in general, people were more or less accurate (with some exceptions) Subjective ratings of musicality had no association with performance on the rhythm subtest: rhythm is hard to predict.
