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Hmm...my 14 year old is in GT and all honors classes. He hates to read and LOVES metal.
Interesting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected...1/nmetal21.xml
Heavy metal 'a comfort for the bright child'
By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 21/03/2007
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Intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research.
The results of a study of more than 1,000 of the brightest five per cent of young people will come as relief to parents whose offspring, usually long-haired, are devotees of Iron Maiden, AC/DC and their musical descendants.
Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent "metalheads" are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders.
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Stuart Cadwallader, a psychologist at the University of Warwick, will present the findings at the British Psychological Society conference in York today.
He said: "There is a perception of gifted and talented students as being into classical music and spending a lot of time reading. I think that is an inaccurate stereotype. There is literature that links heavy metal to poor academic performance and delinquency but we found a group that contradicts that.
"We are looking at a group with lower than average self-esteem that does not feel quite as well adjusted. They feel more stressed out and turn to heavy metal as a way of relieving that stress.
"Participants said they appreciated the complex and sometimes political themes of heavy metal music more than perhaps the average pop song. It has a tendency to worry adults a bit but I think it is just a cathartic thing. It does not indicate problems."
The researchers surveyed 1,057 members of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth - a body whose 120,000 student members are within the top five per cent academically in the 11-19 age range.
Asked for their favourite type of music, 39 per cent said rock, 18 per cent R&B and 14 per cent pop. Six per cent said heavy metal and a third rated it in their top five genres.
The heavy metal fans in the study had lower self-esteem and more difficulties in family relationships and friendships.
Mr Cadwallader then held an online discussion involving 19 members of the academy, 17 of whom were heavy metal fans. They spoke of listening to bands including System of a Down, Slipknot, Tool, Dragon Force, Forward Russia and In Flames when they were in a bad mood and using it to work off frustrations and anger.
One student said: "It helps me with stress. It's the general thrashiness of it. You can't really jump your anger into the floor and listen to your music at the same time with other types of music."
Mr Cadwallader added: "Perhaps gifted people experience more pressure than their peers and use the music to purge this negativity."
Dan Silver, assistant editor of the music magazine NME who has worked for Kerrang! and Metal Hammer, said: "Many themes of heavy metal are about alienation. If you have these kinds of feelings there is a lot you can get out of the music and the community of fans who are into it."
Hmm...my 14 year old is in GT and all honors classes. He hates to read and LOVES metal.
Interesting.
However, this is not him at all.The heavy metal fans in the study had lower self-esteem and more difficulties in family relationships and friendships
Ya, that part I didnt really get, usually, at least from experience, metal listeners are quite outspoken individuals.
What a completely asinine study and conclusion.
6 percent said heavy metal was their favorite, ranking it below three other music types.
That's about 63 people, and then they interviewed only 17 of those.
All this jerkoff was doing was conducting a biased survey to support his own preconceived notions.
"The researchers surveyed 1,057 members of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth - a body whose 120,000 student members are within the top five per cent academically in the 11-19 age range.What a completely asinine study and conclusion.
6 percent said heavy metal was their favorite, ranking it below three other music types.
That's about 63 people, and then they interviewed only 17 of those.
All this jerkoff was doing was conducting a biased survey to support his own preconceived notions.
Asked for their favourite type of music, 39 per cent said rock, 18 per cent R&B and 14 per cent pop. Six per cent said heavy metal and a third rated it in their top five genres."
So he surveyed about 1% of the student body, what a large sample to draw from.
He only gives us the genres of what 76% of the students voted for. Did rap draw 24% of the vote? Where's that stat at?
What a stupid ing attempt by the original poster and the conductor of the survey to try and knock rap.
I love to rock!!!
Way too many variables. For one thing, the range of musical styles encompassed by the term "heavy metal" is far too broad to make conclusions. (And thew same could be said about any genre) The audience at a Dragon Force concert is probably going to be a lot different from the audience at a Pantera concert in 1994.
The connections sound reasonable on the surface, but they're not based on anything concrete.
For every genius that listens to heavy metal, I can show you 10 complete morons.
It's accepted practice to survey only a subset of a large body, assuming that the subset is selected without bias and is representative of the group as a whole. That's what they try to do wiith Gallup polls, for example.
But you're right about the missing 24%.
Also, he has no control group to compare it to. Suppose, for example, that 25% of all kids say heavy metal is their favorite. Then one might be able to draw the conclusion that "smart" kids actually like metal less than others.
It's a ridiculous article. I'm hoping that it misrepresents the guy who performed the study, or he's a dunce.
More than likely it's all three.
Ive met a ton of bright kids all across the US while playing in metal bands. Then again, Ive met a ton of drunken idiots. There are good and bad that comes with all music.
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