There's lots of perfect pitch, supposed perfect pitch
research out there that is complete junk
i'm going to have to do a video on perfect
pitch research and debunk most of it; for now I will just say that if you
have a study where the subjects are people
born with perfect pitch, perfect pitch possessors
then it's probably of solid study and
the conclusions are solid, but if you have a
study which just purports to study regular people and draws
some conclusions that they have some
degree of perfect pitch, that's, in my opinion, that is bunk, that is junk, most of it
for the simple reason that none of those studies would pass a "smell test" in a
court of law
you know if you got, if you brought those
scientists as experts into a courtroom, and they would have to explain
to the judge how their conclusions are correct
they would fail any cross-examination
was not pass the smell test, for the simple reason that there is simply no
evidence to show that when people sing
a song, you know, their favorite song in a more or
or less correct key, that they are using the same
mechanisms that people with perfect pitch use
there's absolutely no evidence of that if you look at any of
those studies; and plus, when they say that they sing it
roughly in the correct key
that's not really the same level of
accuracy that you will have with perfect
pitch
yeah it's more or less roughly the same, but see,
perfect pitch doesn't work like that, perfect pitch
more or less tells you that a note falls either
in its own, you know, bowl or bucket, or it doesn't; so, not only is it
not perfect because the accuracy level
is not enough, but also it's not perfect
pitch because there's no, there's no evidence to show
that regular people are using the same memory and
you know, association mechanisms
that people with perfect pitch use; or for instance
they will tell you the people with tonal
tonal languages they speak you know they say the same
words on more or less the same pitch
well first of all it's not the same pitch
it's close, but it's not the same level of
accuracy as you have music and as you
have in absolute pitch; and secondly, that kind of
generalization applies to non-tonal
languages as well;  for instance, let's take
English; go ahead and watch BBC
and watch a bunch of British news and
then go ahead and watch you know Fox and CNN
and watch a bunch of American news
and compare the average male pitch of the
British hosts
male and female, and then compare the average
pitch of the male and female American hosts
I mean, for one you will notice that American
female hosts have probably even lower
average pitch than British male hosts
which might accidentally show that American
women have more testosterone than
British men, and that could be the case
but today's video is not about that -- the point
is that people tend to kind of gravitate
to the average speaking pitch in their society
but that may or may not have anything to do with perfect pitch mechanisms; and I submit to you that it doesn't have
anything to do with perfect pitch; and I will also tell you that there is no evidence
in scientific studies that when people
you know, end up speaking on more or less
the same pitch that it has anything to
do with particular perfect pitch
sensations and perfect pitch mechanisms used by perfect pitch possessors
