Scott-
You said
"For example, with the studies showing that students of music score higher on standardized tests - what conclusions can actually be drawn. Lot's of supposition on why the correlation exists, but do not equate correlation with causation. What about the background reason(s) for why some students have access to music education? What about the parents and/or community nurturing, etc. etc. etc. Each of these could be the REAL causation based reason for the correlation, not that music in and of itself re-orders the synaptic behavior of the brain for memory and/or skill."

I think that the Kansas study shows this correlation because the better the school music education system, the better the scores. It wasn't just the 'music students' as a whole, it quantized a difference between the quality of music education and the results.

Just my thoughts


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