April 19, 2005

You Are Your Playlist

The SF Gate has some more thoughts and quotes about the public nature of iTunes playlists (I mentioned one of the studies discussed in the article a few weeks back).
"We do find that people are able to make fairly accurate assessments solely on the basis of a person's top 10 songs,'' said Jason Rentfrow, a psychology consultant who co-authored a 2003 University of Texas study of more than 3,500 people that showed musical taste can provide a road map to a person's personality.

(Now listening to, btw, Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin's "Yugurre No Kyoku," from Makoto-Shinjitsu ... my automated upload of "now playing in iTunes" seems to be caught in a demo CD I got from Magnet last weekend.)

[via Michael R. Moore]

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