Siteadmin, Check users, nsTeam1RO, nsTeam1RW, nsTeam1_talkRO, nsTeam1_talkRW, oversight, Administrators
30,650
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 152:
Line 152: + +
→Musical Talent: "Musical talent just isn’t inherited: it really is created."
People have long debated whether musical ability is inherited. A team of Anglo-American researchers estimated "that between 70 to 80 per cent of an individual's ability to recognise musical pitch is inherited" the heritability of musical talent at 70%, meaning that after allowing for a 30% influence from known factors they assumed that the rest comes from genes. [http://www.bionews.org.uk/page_11043.asp]
People have long debated whether musical ability is inherited. A team of Anglo-American researchers estimated "that between 70 to 80 per cent of an individual's ability to recognise musical pitch is inherited" the heritability of musical talent at 70%, meaning that after allowing for a 30% influence from known factors they assumed that the rest comes from genes. [http://www.bionews.org.uk/page_11043.asp]
Music educator Joel Lewis begs to differ: "Musical talent just isn’t inherited: it really is created." [http://www.joellewis.net/is-musical-talent-inherited/]
== See also ==
== See also ==