Scored 26/26. Clearly the music samples are meant to be familiar to nearly all Americans. As mentioned before, the errors aren't subtle ones. One should be considerate that 2 to 5 percent of the U.S. population has problems with pitch perception (and evidence indicates this has genetic causes), and although it seems incredible that these samples would be challenging for those with the condition, let's be reflective on the things that are easy for some and hard for others.
Test Your Sense of Pitch
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#22Well, I got 26 out of 26, but only by second-guessing the tonality that they expected, "what would classical music want me to do?". If you had said that #3 was written by Bach, I would say it was wrong. If you had said it was by Tchaikovsky I would have said it was correct. I guessed that the test wanted me to say 'wrong' (which was the correct answer). Tchaikovsky was over a century ago and a piece of music by him w…
Are you an American? As an American I found all of these very familiar, and they're explicitly patriotic, like yankee doodle, the national anthem, my country 'tis of thee, and so forth. Others like La Cucaracha would be very familiar to Americans.
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#23Hmm, well I stopped at the second song from the example one. I think tests like this should not assume that the listener knows those songs. Also, if the listener knows those songs the test shouldn't assume a perfect memory of them. It tests the sense of pitch, not how well the listener remembers those songs. I mean without even knowing those songs, one only can guess by giving a no answer to those songs that contain…
I only recognized 3 of the tunes, but still got 26 perfect score. Nothing to do with familiarity with the material, just whether you can hear notes being in the correct key or not.
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#2424/26 -- I guess this test is tailored to Americans quite a bit... As a European I recognise a few of the melodies, but for some of them I just have no idea what the true melody is supposed to be.
I also got 24 of 26 ... two samples were cut short omitting one or more notes that naturally would come at the end. Not being sure whether "completeness" was part of the test (probably not since the focus was "pitch") I wrongly replied "no" for those. When designing experiments it's good to point out what to do if the tests come across unexpected situations. E.g. I've witnessed QA where the verification suggestion "n…
Same here. Even though I suspected the odds were against me, I couldn't bring myself to identify phrases with their final notes missing as "correct". There's probably a moral about pedantry here.
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#25I'm confused as to how you could get anything but 26/26... The tunes which are "wrong" aren't subtly off, they're grossly distorted - to the degree where on some of them it's hard to tell what the tune was meant to be, but you know that you're listening to some kind of godawful mess, and the answer must therefore be "No".
Well, for one, you could not know the tunes and think it's all random chromatic scale piano playing and thus all played « correctly ».
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#26I'm confused as to how you could get anything but 26/26... The tunes which are "wrong" aren't subtly off, they're grossly distorted - to the degree where on some of them it's hard to tell what the tune was meant to be, but you know that you're listening to some kind of godawful mess, and the answer must therefore be "No".
I got 21/26, as of my comment the lowest score in the comment section here, but the website said it was a fine sense of pitch. Honestly I thought I'd get less than 50% before I began. I also did not recognise some of the melodies.
Some also sounded right, but cut out the last tone. Not sure if those are supposed to be counted as correct or incorrect so I did a 50/50 on those.
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#27I'm confused as to how you could get anything but 26/26... The tunes which are "wrong" aren't subtly off, they're grossly distorted - to the degree where on some of them it's hard to tell what the tune was meant to be, but you know that you're listening to some kind of godawful mess, and the answer must therefore be "No".
Well, for one, you could not know the tunes and think it's all random chromatic scale piano playing and thus all played « correctly ».
Except it's made clear from the way the test is designed that that's not the case
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#28I seem to have the lowest score yet, at 17/26. I recognized most but not all of the tunes. There were many I wasn't sure about, and if I took it again I'd probably give different answers.
One time I tried to tune a ukulele, using a sound played from a laptop as a reference note, but I couldn't even tell whether the string pitch was higher or lower than the reference.
And yet - I rarely play, but I own an ocarina, and when I get a note wrong, it's usually quite obvious to me.
I wish they'd give me a more precise breakdown of my score. Did I get more false positives or false negatives?
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#29I seem to have the lowest score yet, at 17/26. I recognized most but not all of the tunes. There were many I wasn't sure about, and if I took it again I'd probably give different answers. One time I tried to tune a ukulele, using a sound played from a laptop as a reference note, but I couldn't even tell whether the string pitch was higher or lower than the reference. And yet - I rarely play, but I own an ocarina, and…
Here are my answers - Y correct, N incorrect. 9/26 Y, 17/26 N, makes me guess I had too many N, which is already what I was expecting. Does anyone feel like marking me?
(Example) - Y
1 Y *
2 Y
3 Y *
4 N
5 Y
6 N *
7 N
8 Y
9 N
10 Y *
11 N
12 N *
13 N
14 N
15 Y
16 N
17 N
18 Y
19 N
20 N
21 N
22 N *
23 Y *
24 N
25 N *
26 Y *
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#30Is this meant to test for disability, or also to test for "giftedness"?
Seeing many people here with a 26/26 score, I suspect the former.