The Sound of Your GPA Slipping Away
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- Researchers have noticed some trends in the relationship between academic performance and noise. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t sound good.
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I'm watching this video instead of studying, so the sound of my GPA slipping away is the audio of this video
Hey, me too!
Lol
Thats actually what i thought this video will be about when i read the title lol
this is too meta...
It's ok to take a break once a while. You should take a 10-20 minute brain break every 1-2 hrs.
I feel like not enough is stated for the possibility of correlation rather than causation. I mean, a study showed women who rode horses have a much longer life span. Do horses just relieve stress that well, or does owning a horse indicate a level of wealth that could get one access to better diet, cleaner air & water, and easier access to medical care? People with money can make sure their homes and their kids schools are in quieter areas. Poverty itself is a huge stressor that definitely affects children and their ability to learn.
They factored in socioeconomic status, "income" and "socialization" at 3:00
My guess was a knock-on effect from the abundance of leaded fuels used in the past in aeas with busy roads and airports. Air quality could be a factor. It's hard to tell from the low amount of information provided.
I first thought the same exact thing - that schools in noisier locations would tend to coincide with lower income communities. But he did say the study accounted for factors like income.
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noise pollution is definitely a direct factor thoughr
@@stacyescobedo1642 he did say the study accounted for that
Sounds like large class sizes are a big barrier to learning, huh?
Just one of many things that don’t scale up as well as we like to think.
They definitely are. Some students always distract others. I've had to isolate some students in my class to keep noises down.
In the UK, this is why private schools do better on average compared to state schools. I go to a state school.
This is why I prefer listening to music while working. It allows me to have one constant source of noise I enjoy, so I can focus on what I'm doing without outside interference.
I’m exactly the same
Same!!
This is also why I prefer to listen to lofi, classical, or jazz when doing homework. Although there's variety, it's mostly the same sounds.
@@aenetanthony Lofi and classical got me through high school, and now it's getting me through college! 😂
I like to sing and do physics or chat when there's someone around. It makes it a lot more enjoyable and I get more done.
my grades for my bachelors are absolute trash, my grades for my masters are (for now) surprisingly good. starting my masters degree at the beginning of the pandemic with online classes meant i could quitly study in the attic at my parents home with no annoying sounds or visual distractions, it really made a big difference!
I wish i had the situation to start learning without annoying noises
wow, I know this is random but thank you for your comment. I have been under stress because im doing horrible in pre-calc and i need to pass it in order to take calc 1
I felt so depressed yesterday and wanted to just drop out of school. I really want to work with AI/ML and I need a masters degree in most job requirements.
SO i felt that if I couldnt even pass pre-calc how was I going to finish calc 1 and make my way to a graduate program.
Im gonna keep going until its actually over and keep trying to have a passing grade the best I can
I’d like to get a masters but I have 2 C’s on my transcript, how were your grades?
@@FRAMEDSKATEKREW69 I like how your name is menace to society but it's a really wholesome comment. Have a good day, human.
I thrive in coffeeshops with white noise, but specific conversations where I can hear every word will kill my concentration. So it completely depends on which sound for me. 🙂
Same! Some constant white people noise has always seemed helpful to me, too. Not only do conversations distract me though, but music as well - meditation music is the only one I can study to. Any other background music that is good or that I recognise is enough to even distract me from a conversation...
Same
The worst is trying to study in one of the ‘silent study zones’ when someone near by has the sniffles, and instead of walking out blowing their nose they just there snorting and sniffling constantly; drives me absolutely nuts.
For people with allergies, they’d have to step out and blow their nose every 90 seconds. I think “silent study zones” would benefit from white noise machines that soften the effect of unavoidable noise.
Ear plugs are a game changer
I get hay fever about once or twice a season, I have to get up constantly to use a tissue when it happens. I don't really blame those who try to avoid using a tissue (it feels very awkward getting up to use one in public) but I have to admit it's really annoying.
mounting evidence suggests the current public school conventional model needs reform for streamlining and improved efficacy and reduced harm to students' psyches.
Hi. I have inattentive ADHD and I just got ANC headphones. My concentration during lectures has more than doubled. I am still writing this comment while the video is playing at 2x speed, though.
being able to speed up recordings of online classes has been such a livesaver for my ADHD brain
@@pay1370 It really has. But it was still not enough. Even sped up I could at most watch one of the two lectures I have per day (and that's very much a best-case scenario).
Now classes are in-person again because my country has an amazing vaccination rate and that's also mostly helping.
@@fghsgh good for you, hope you get good grades this semester!
@@pay1370 I hope the best for you too!
Wow I’m so glad that this is affirming my decision to continue to remote study from a small town, instead of moving back to the big city that my college is in to ‘live the college experience’ once covid is under control. I’m an HSP anyways, so it’s cool to know it impacts everyone, I’m just on the far end of the spectrum.
I used to wonder how some parents can go about their business or carry on a conversation while seemingly oblivious to the cacophony and havoc their children are creating mere footsteps away. Now I don’t. Cheers! -Phill, Las Vegas
As a french, I had few seconds of confusion understanding the title as GPA means "Gestation pour autrui" over here
This explains why I always picked the quietest stacks in the library to study in! Thank you SciShow hahaha
Sounds like you've lived up to your name! Congratulations
I think these are also concerns for “open offices”
I really expected the scientist to also test intentional sound. Waves, nature or quiet music. Imagine boosting your classes grades overall with smooth jazz during the test
That might be a bit unethical since it might hinder student's learning. The big question would be, how do you play it loud enough that everyone can hear but, without distracting anyone?
@@solsystem1342 it's not torture and if the grades are worse because of the experiment they can just be "curved" like everything else in college anyways... I don't see how it would be unethical in any way.
Sure there are logistical challenges, but that's something whoever does it will think about. Maybe headphones? Idk
@@SquintyGears it doesn't have to be tourcher to be unethical but, on second thought this wouldn't be bad if you did it as an experiment separate from normal schooling. Also, the point of classes is to teach people things not to grade them, or at least it should be.
@@solsystem1342 you can't actually say it is that way with a straight face...
In my own childhood i've experienced school in 4 countries in 6 different "systems" and the only thing that matters in the end are the grades.
I don't think it's perfect the way it is, but that IS the way it is.
@@SquintyGears ok, well I'm saying that shouldn't be the goal and you're agreeing so let's just agree to agree
Just give me my hyperbolic time chamber, there's literally no quiet space in my house😅
Great video! Speaking of education, I'm curious about the compared quality of learning in the flipped lecture/homework model: Usually students receive a lesson in class then do homework at home... but some programs get students to watch the lessons _as_ their homework so they can complete the course work during class time and ask questions to their teachers having already absorbed the material.
interesting- commenting to hopefully boost this in the algorithm cuz id like to have this covered too
Same I'd like to hear more about this as well
+1
I'd like to hear about AND experience this...!
I had a professor that quizzed everyone in turn during class and it sucked because I had nothing to do most of the time.
I think it could be a good idea for homework, if anyone showed up. I've heard about a professor doing this and one student (the same one) showed up every day for it but no one else did. Idk how it'd work in grade school.
Love online learning. A nice quite room of my own (benefits of being an old guy in my sixties) But got to admit that I’ve got an Physics exam today and I’m futting around on CZcams. 🤣
Good luck with your exam! 😊
Good to know that can happen on any age tbh
When u get this video notification while literally studying for your bio stats midterm
1. Correlation does not equal causation.
My first instinct is to question this relationship between noisier environments and GPA. Nosier environments sounds near airports and major road-ways sound like mediocre to terrible places to live in general, where the quieter places could be upscale and more maintained suburbs. This makes the argument that these areas do worse not because of the noise, but the lack of money/funding for a good education.
So while noise could negatively effect students, it's likely not the only problem affecting them as there are many other social & economic issues as well.
I'm over 60 & I still find it impossible to filter out noises, & this continues to annoy me! The whole train & all the traffic is all audible to me at the same volume, & when everyone in the room is chatting I just can't hear someone clearly enough to have a conversation (& it's embarrassing as I can't even think clearly)!
Also over sixty, just one of those things we have to deal with, almost all my age cohort have the same problem.
I wonder if adults with ADHD suffer more from these distracting noises.
Thanks bro ,i really needed this😢😩
I have a weird relationship with noise and concentrating. When I'm trying to read on a bus and I can hear someone's conversation loud and clear - I start to feel travel sick. However, if the bus is silent/conversations are inaudible, I feel just fine.
Omg. Flashback to my son in 2nd grade.
Teacher- He won't sit at the round table with the other kids. He sits alone at a desk in the farthest corner.
ME: And
MY SON: There's too much noise at the table. I can't work. 😲😳
I've got autism and ADHD, and sound is my nemesis. My brain is absolutely terrible at filtering background sound from relevant sound, which means that I honestly can't hear what people are saying right in front of me in a crowded, but not necessarily loud, room. Noise cancelling headphones have been an absolute lifesaver. My ADHD hyperfocus plus sitting in the front and center of classrooms is usually enough for me to pay attention in class, but the headphones are an absolute necessity when studying, testtaking, writing, etc.
As someone living right beside a busy road, i relate with the learned helplessness. Well, now that i am aware of it, its time to grow out of it
1:25 Welcome to the *Rewind 10 Seconds Club*
Another thing to note is that a lot of kids have trouble filtering out noise. Either because their neurodiverse, a noise processing disorder, or any of a million reasons. So many of these kids really struggle in classrooms with lots of other kids or background noises in general.
When we have a problem with sounds I think we should try to talk about it with people so there won't be any arguments over noise.😨😍
ADHDer and Tourette’s syndrome person here. I took tests in secluded rooms during school, but that backfired during one notoriously tough freshman final in college when the secluded room ended up being used for printing but the printer had issues and the teacher had to print pages every 5 minutes and come in and come back as I took my test. It didn’t help that the test was so difficult that students talked about it for years afterwards. I was happy to finish that class with a B. Lol. (I graduated cum laude with a great job now, so it all worked out. Lol)
If u have adhd internal noise isn't loud students, it's your brain tryina have five thoughts on top of each other 😂
That one kid who chews gum like a cow who sighs obnoxiously loud during tests is worse than all the traffic noise combined.
sounds are distracting? that's crazy I had no idea. I would have never guessed
The ticking of a clock would drive me insane during tests. I had to wear earplugs.
Those internal classroom noises are the bane of my existence, not just from attention but because the noises themselves just viscerally bother me and make me overwhelmed and I get so emotional and helpless and angry just from some chairs squeaking or pencils scratching or people coughing and UGHGIH I HATE IT SO MUCH the worst part is how bad i feel afterwards because these are things that cant be helped and i know that but it still bothers me so much but i dont want to bother other people ya know? So i try not to react but its so visceral that the more i try to stop the more difficult it becomes to NOT react
Ok. That's it!
I'll stop blaming my Aspergers and begin blaming the ventilation sytem
I always manage to pay attention to these videos... so there's that.
I had a test a few months ago and the person beside me had the sniffles. It was SO hard to concentrate during that test -_-
I use white noise. It helps with focus and sleep.
When I was a kid and young I lived near an airforce base. Nowadays I barely notice plane sounds. In my current city the military did some random flyover and I saw so many people super alarmed in social media (apps like Jodel) asking if a war was starting cos the noise was so loud and surprising. I missed the whole occurrence entirely just cos my brain ignored it 😅
This is why still doesn’t count as study time for me. I don’t do any work in class, always do it at home where i can focus.
As someone with trauma disorders, ADHD and Austism Spectrum (among other things) I have first-hand experience with all these problems 😑
Mood
👀 How do you do fellow plural?
@@WolfgangDoW Why hello there fellow plural. Doing as well as can be expected 😑
- Jamie
Every home needs thick walls, so do classrooms.
I don't know if this is the same thing. But I use to live in a bad neighborhood, that had gun shots every night. One night I noticed I couldn't get to sleep because that night there was no gun shots.
Wouldn't noisy neighborhoods tend to have lower incomes which correlates with poorer learning? I think only 1 study mentioned accounted for income
This makes a lot of sense.
I tend to only get assignments done when I have groups I work with. I suppose I just get drained really easily from my coursework and can recharge with peer conversation.
The title 😂😂😂
That's the good thing about being hard of hearing! I can just take my hearing aid off if I want to during a test so I can focus better without noise ;)
Im so happy my hs is secluded on the mountain
I wonder if the noise would also have a negative impact on non-test performance. Like, they may do worse on academic activities, but would they do worse on all activities? Are there any activities where we would see Better performance? Can the academic performance be generalized to all performance?
Yes, this is my new excuse for not doing my HW
I suppose if you spend much of your formative primary years with environmental distractions then your secondary and post-secondary years are wasted even if -your- (irony) you're in a new situation without the distractions because you've not learned to be a good student. I would lump bullying, either physical or verbal, in this category.
Amusingly pure silence sucked for study, the slightest shuffle or peep was more noticeable. A low rumble is much easier for me, I enjoy the hum of cars and the boiler running. Apparently even fell asleep as a baby to the sound of a vacuum because of the rumble.
Funny that, I'm intimately familiar with a dripping tap but it drives me nuts as I try and sleep!
noise was my go to for studies. Linkin Park on bass boosted Skull Candy for post midnight study sessions was a staple. But then, Noise of a pretty girl across the library in colg conversing with her bf often made me wonder about his luck and CGPA to be able to have a gf in iit. it was a polite and loving conversation. but it was one incident i remember that was distraction enough.
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Hmmm it's like I dont hear clock ticking untill i stop and focus
Did they control for confounding variables? Students in noisier schools are more likely to have lower quality education due to systemic factors.
I'm actually the opposite I get more distracted with noise the older I get
It could be interesting to see what the effect of this would be on autism and adhd
Like, could there be a deficit in this learned habituation thing at play?
i must still be a kid cuz i'm still trying to master habituation
A lot of these conclusions seem like pretty big stretches...
Nah when it comes to adhd and add, that background noise tends to help more often than not.
Talk psychology. The headline of this video gave me anxiety when I saw it
Researchers could come to visit institutions in Bangladesh ! Noises are too intense here, specially around government institutions!
So what you're saying is, water is wet? Got it /s
How do you know me?
lofi hiphop or jazz. that is the answer to this problem.
This doesn't bode well for the Death Metal I listen to while auditing research data... \m/
Hey, I audit research data to hard rock. The two aren't that far apart. :P
Hey at least your not singing and talking while doing homework, I find it still helps me focus though.
Maybe also quieter areas correlate with richer neighborhoods and better funded schools, thus better teachers, and better tools for learning. So less road noise might not inherently help learning, but instead tend to be the same places where it's easier for students to learn for other reasons. I'm definitely not saying this is the case, just something I thought of.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing but if you check the first source the researchers say " The negative relationships between performance and noise levels were maintained when the data were corrected for socio-economic factors relating to social deprivation, language and special educational needs."
@@nicholashall5953 nice, glad they accounted for that
Learned helplessness is a backbone of the American system. Thank you for talking about it
Sensory Sensitivity, especially on sound...
That is a very strange video title
were do the comments go!?
that opening study sounds like one hell of a 'risky' way to study.
How did they account for all the other factors that might cause that school to have lower grades? O.o
neat concept for a study, bad methodology.
EG: "school in the path of airplanes" would tend to be located in poorer areas, that get less funding, and thus lower scores.
"AHA PLANES CAUSE BAD GRADES"
Studies on education are generally corrected for income
Yeah, there are statistical methods to account for those things and it was specifically mentioned that those studies did control for those variables, but the effect was still there.
My family moved to lose angles we went on the subway i felt i been there before but my dad said the only time i been on a subway was the day after i was born.
It’s obvious that noise can be distracting and have an impact on grades, but what were the sociopolitical makeup of the loud schools? What were the other factors affecting results? Seems like it’s on the verge of click bait psychology to me
They specifically mentioned that the studies had controlled for those variables.
Locations near loud areas are likely to be in low income areas where academics are anticipated to be lower in the first place.
I just heard the part about it accounting income etc. but I don't believe that bias came be removed.
ME. ME. ME. ME. ME. ME. FUXK. ME. You don't know how muxh this has affected me. I was and is still suicidal because of this. I have been affected just because this all my life and it has been worse these past five years. Everybody thinks I am dumb. I have come to believe it. Everytime I tell someone it is extremely hard to write an exam in a room full of people, i think it's just an excuse and they tell me the same thing.. I don't know how to habituate to the noise. I just stop looking or thinking about the test. I have had my teachers gaping at my paper abd I have to absolutely stop writing. I cannot type when someone looks at me type. I cannot do simple math when someone looks at me. I love to learn but hate tests
Lol makes sense as to why Vegas has the worst education. Too much noise and airplanes. This place is just a tourist attraction.
And misophonia?
Having APD and watching this video 🤭
-_- what of it?
And misophonia doesn't make it better
Good comments more pls*
1:4
Clicked on the video to learn what a GPA is, still don't know.
It stands for grade point average; it’s used in US schools.
@@jhangelgurl Ah ok, thanks.
Me rn
What about music?
It sounds like yet another bunch of excuses for the younger generations whose parents have no clue how to raise disciplined children.
Ooooof
GPA= Grade Point Average???
Accidentally early
Is your school too noisy and preventing you from learning properly? Just wait until you're old enough to not be in school anymore!
Lol noisy AC units.
Imagine if we could go around naked but had to wear mask . Hid our face's would we develop the same infatuation With faces as we do naked bodies
How about noise canceling headphones that the teacher’s, n possibly other kids’, voices come through? Oh, sry, right. That would take a political will to spend money on the one thing we should be investing in: our children’s education,i.e., the future
so I actually like this content but I clicked it because I *hate* the title it showed me, "the sound of your grades slipping away", and I wanted to come see what it was about and maybe dislike it! I didn't, it's great, but I thought it was going to be making fun of me for not being productive enough. just some feedback! if this never gets seen, oh well!
Title feels misleading a bit
First