Thanks to Ryan Kelly for alerting us to this:Those hours practicing piano scales or singing with a choral group weren't for nothing because people with a background in music tend to have a higher education and earn more, according to a new survey.
The poll by Harris Interactive, an independent research company, showed that 88 percent of people with a post-graduate education were involved in music while in school, and 83 percent of people earning $150,000 or more had a music education.
"Part of it is the discipline itself in learning music, it's a rigorous discipline, and in an ensemble situation, there's a great deal of working with others. Those types of skills stand you well in careers later in life," said John Mahlmann, of the National Association for Music Education in Reston, Virginia, which assisted in the survey.
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3 comments:
This is one of the lamest statistics I've ever seen. The study also notes that more blacks than whites are involved in music, so should we conclude that studying music makes your skin turn black?
A better analysis: well-educated, well-to-do people are more likely to send their kids to schools which have music programs, and more likely to give their kids music lessons. Those kids are also much more likely to grow up to have lucrative jobs. No causal connection at all.
MENC endorses the findings.
http://www.menc.org/unlinked/harrispoll.html
$150,000 a year salary? I guess they weren't talking about those of us whose careers were based in public education. I wonder if A-Rod sang in choir or played an instrument in school. He's supposedly been offered a ten year contract of $275 million to play for the Yankees. Definitely a high achiever.
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