Can intelligence be affected by music? Options

[lesliewelcomesyo...]

Ok, so I'm in the IB Diploma program. And I was thinking to myself one day: Can the type of music you listen affect your intelligence? Because, for those of you who know people in the IB Diploma Program, they're the "shit" (Quote from counselor). Not that that's a good thing to be proud of, or whatever. (Read people. I never said it was something to be proud of. Seriously). I digress. So, I thought to myself and calculated that the majority of my class listens to rock (or anything non (mainstrem) rap and/or hip-hop). And that the lower classes (no offense) listen to rap and/or hip-hop. I'm not saying EVERYBODY that listens to rap and/or hip-hop is dumb, or even vice versa (meaning that rock doesn't make you smarter). It was just a thought. What do you guys think?

[Gigi]

^ You're implying that listening to non-mainstream music makes you think, and therefore makes you intelligent. WRONG. If it could be so simple, all you would need to do is blast some non-mainstream music through the PA system of a run-down inner city school.

Intelligence is much, much more than a couple of emo guys writing meaningful lyrics that make you "think". Yes, complex music can give the mind more room to expand its horizons, but you have to have the 'intelligence' to appreciate it in the first place.

If you don't possess it, there's no chance in hell you'll give it another chance to actually penetrate your brain and cause a change in your intelligence. Busted on two fronts.

Again, correlation =/= causation. It's even a stretch to say that intelligence affects music preference, but the converse is DEFINITELY false.