Mozart Makes You Smarter

Have you ever heard this? This topic was discussed in my wife's developmental psycology class today. It's classic stuff. As it turns out, this study was conducted on teenagers and applied to infants. Yeah, ten minutes before these teens took a standardized test, they were asked to listen to Mozart. Coincidentally, the teens who listened scored higher on the test. There are so many other variables to consider that the Mozart connection should be nullified; much less applied to infants. Never the less, the governor of Georgia at the time, Zell Miller, appropriated funds to ship Mozart CDs to all children born around the time of the experiment. The result is thousands of wasted dollars; not dozens of smarter children. Although Zell was right on with the lottery, his short shortcomings can be seen is this little experiment; not to mention his propagandist rantings last year. (Author's note: HIGHLY BIASED OPINION)