TIL: The Spotify API was used to analyze the BPM and energy rating of over 900 songs to determine which songs negatively affected driving. "Don't Get Me Wrong" was the most dangerous song with a ri... (www.edriving.com)

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This sounds very unscientific. Have you seen how people react to Sweet Caroline? They start beating things and singing along aggressively. Hammering the stearing wheel seems dangerous.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How were they able to link a song's attributes to driving? Closed course driving? Driving data from automobiles? What's the sample size of drivers? How are they confident that the song effects are a causation and not correlation? Seems to be a lot of missing information in this article...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just added “Don’t Get Me Wrong” to my driving playlist a few days ago… oops…

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