I got 75% on the memory part, which sucks, but I did pretty well on the pitch part...

According to cognitive science, the average chap's audio memory clocks in at around 17 seconds. That's why I always A/B stuff, because...well, I probably clock in at less.

Did normal on the first one.

0.81 something Hz on the second.

88.9% Correct.

I can reliably tell the difference between tones 2.1hz apart. Joy.

Here's another thing I don't get. The hz difference only measures the deviation from the fixed first tone, right? That is, don't go around telling people that you can, in fact, reliable tell the difference between tones .375 hz apart. This should be much easier to do at 50hz than at 15,500hz.

Am I understanding this right?

= Justin

PS - I'll post this on the comments board of the game and see if I get and answer.

Justin from Queens wrote:Here's another thing I don't get. The hz difference only measures the deviation from the fixed first tone, right? That is, don't go around telling people that you can, in fact, reliable tell the difference between tones .375 hz apart. This should be much easier to do at 50hz than at 15,500hz.

Am I understanding this right?

= Justin

PS - I'll post this on the comments board of the game and see if I get and answer.

I think this depends on a set of variables. Amongst those variables are probably such items as:

1. overall amplitude. Fletcher-Munson curves, anyone?

2. hearing damage. I have a dead ear on the right to anything over 18khz or so. I used to hear OVER 20khz, I think. According to the old test at the St. Louis science center, anyway...

3. practice. Critical listening skills get better with practice. That 'Golden Ears' training thing works wonders. You lose it if you don't use it, though...

4. fatigue. As in hearing fatigue.


As an aside, something I found interesting was that your brain can hear and decipher phonemes ('language sounds', for the uninitiated) much faster than it can interpret musical events. If someone is talking very fast, and they are speaking your language, you can process the sounds much faster than you can tell a musical passage sped up to the same number of sounds, which at a certain threshold gets interpreted as noise...although I'd like to see comparative stats on musicians vrs. non-musicians on that threshold...

scott wrote:Does anybody have a test where they play a sinewave, and you have to type in your guess as to what the frequency is? That's the test I'd really like to take.

"Golden Ears" audio training software or the equivalent would work well for you.

scott wrote:91.7% correct on the musical memory... 0.675 on the pitch identification.

Just took it again...

83.3% on the musical memory

1.0875 on pitch.

I'm gonna call that worse by about 3dBcrap.

That was with headphones.


For any super-noobz out there, dBcrap and dBC are not the same thing

91.7% I was listening for slight pitch changes at first thinking this was also the pitch thing. That may have hurt me. I believed I could ace it on the second run. I did not ace it.

1.05Hz for the real pitch thing. Lets tune some pianos!

I couldn't find out if I was retarded or not though.

greg wrote:91.7% I was listening for slight pitch changes at first thinking this was also the pitch thing. That may have hurt me. I believed I could ace it on the second run. I did not ace it.

1.05Hz for the real pitch thing. Lets tune some pianos!

I couldn't find out if I was retarded or not though.

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