thread of dunking on academic/laypeople's studies of pop music that set out to confirm one's beliefs about how music sucks these days, at the expense of facts or the scientific method

lol

Scientists tested a group of millennials on their ability to recognise hit records from different decades. The 643 participants, typically aged 18 to 25

over half that age range = not millennials

that said, for what it's worth, the linked article is an oversimplification of the study, but the conclusions of the study are rather all over the place

(but 21-year-olds still aren't millennials)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0210066#pone.0210066.s001

yeah few things depress me more than seeing general purpose media attempting to report on scientific findings, because they always want to "sex it up", typically by grossly misrepresenting the actual findings