Subject: sex distribution in absolute pitch From: Martin Braun <nombraun(at)TELIA.COM> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:51:14 +0200Robert Zatorre asked: > ........ someone asked a perfectly reasonable and > specific question about sex distribution in absolute pitch. Did anyone > ever answer that ..... To my knowledge there has been no research on this issue. The reasons probably are the methodological problems. We can only measure AP prevalence in narrowly defined social groups, such as students in a music class, or singers in a choir. It would be meaningless, and quite silly in fact, to measure it in a randomly collected sample of the general population, because all depends on the musical learning of the subjects. For this reason there are no general figures of AP prevalence, and, as a consequence, none on the prevalence according to sex, either. Martin -------------------------------- Martin Braun Neuroscience of Music S-671 95 Klässbol Sweden web site: http://w1.570.telia.com/~u57011259/index.htm