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Music with lyrics interferes with cognitive tasks (2023)

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Re: Music with lyrics interferes with cognitive tasks (2023)

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You lost me at conjecture. It was empirical research. He also wouldn’t have said that because he wouldn’t have wanted to admit it or admit to rejecting anything with vocals. And for example, we sold free jazz (amongst other things) alongside but it was never played in the office because it’s too distracting. “There's no shortage of ambient electronic music labels, and it's not because CEOs need to use their music to…

> You lost me at conjecture. It was empirical research. He also wouldn’t have said that because he wouldn’t have wanted to admit it Yes, aka, mind-reading. Aka conjecture. >* and furthermore, you’re saying this in a thread about a paper which proposes that “music with lyrics interferes with cognitive tasks”, an example of which I am affirming.* Which is irrelevant. Nobody argued that music with lyrics doesn't interfe…

Nah.

Re: Music with lyrics interferes with cognitive tasks (2023)

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Well I’m expressing my years of direct experience working for the guy and you’re contradicting that even though you weren’t there. No idea why.

Here's an idea why: because you presented an implausible conjecture, that he only sold ambient music because it was the right soundtrack to him making business dealings for selling music, lest he be distracted by other types of music. Unless the direct experience involves him telling you straight out "I only sell ambient because it's the only thing I can listen to when making marketing moves", it's mind-reading. Not…

Jeez he never suggested that all ambient music was released or was popular for this reason, he just said that's what happened in that particular case. Give it a rest!
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