Does Music Negatively Affects Student's Grades
Different types of music influence focus in different ways, which can have an impact on grades. Studies have shown that music has an impact on our ability to focus. A phenomenon known as the Mozart Effect says that listening to Mozart and other classical artists can improve memory. Other studies have found that music with lyrics can be distracting and negatively affect the learning process. As Advanced Placement and honors students, we decided to test these theories in order to see how the music we listen to is affecting ourselves and other Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors attending Lakeland High School. Our hypothesis is that music with lyrics negatively affects student’s grades, while classical music such as Mozart has a positive affect.
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Students that listened to classical music had the second highest average GPA when compared to all of different genres of music individually. However, when comparing all music with lyrics and classical music, our hypothesis was proven correct. Part of the reason our hypothesis appeared incorrect when the averages of individual genres of music were compared was that our data was slightly skewed. The data that we collected was analyzed with averages, which made the results misleading. Only two out of the hundred students surveyed said that they listened to Christian music, and both of those people had relatively high GPAs, thus creating a positive correlation between students who listen to Christian music and high GPAs. The correlation found did not have enough participants to be valid, and therefore skewed the results of our experiment. Taking that factor into consideration, it could be argued that our experiment as a whole did not support our hypothesis at all, since the results of Christian Music and GPA clearly showed us that the amount of students falling under each category messed with our averages. In order to rightfully validate our hypothesis, more data would need to be collected and analyzed, but for now our results show that our hypothesis was
Students that listened to classical music had the second highest average GPA when compared to all of different genres of music individually. However, when comparing all music with lyrics and classical music, our hypothesis was proven correct. Part of the reason our hypothesis appeared incorrect when the averages of individual genres of music were compared was that our data was slightly skewed. The data that we collected was analyzed with averages, which made the results misleading. Only two out of the hundred students surveyed said that they listened to Christian music, and both of those people had relatively high GPAs, thus creating a positive correlation between students who listen to Christian music and high GPAs. The correlation found did not have enough participants to be valid, and therefore skewed the results of our experiment. Taking that factor into consideration, it could be argued that our experiment as a whole did not support our hypothesis at all, since the results of Christian Music and GPA clearly showed us that the amount of students falling under each category messed with our averages. In order to rightfully validate our hypothesis, more data would need to be collected and analyzed, but for now our results show that our hypothesis was