I was reading about this last week and the thing that struck me is that every experiment was "plants respond more to <musical genre> than <other musical genre>", or male voices vs female voices or swearing vs compliments.
It's total pseudoscience designed to generate comedy science articles and press releases.
If anyone actually cared about this they'd be playing sine waves and white noise at various frequencies and amplitudes. You'd see a graph of growth vs frequency or whatever.
I couldn't find anything like that though. Does this article have it (can't read due to paywall).
It's total pseudoscience designed to generate comedy science articles and press releases.
If anyone actually cared about this they'd be playing sine waves and white noise at various frequencies and amplitudes. You'd see a graph of growth vs frequency or whatever.
I couldn't find anything like that though. Does this article have it (can't read due to paywall).