Music can actually make you less smart?

NO! In fact there are some studies that, say that pregnant women should listen to classical music more often to enhance the neurons of their upcoming baby. Babies who often listen to those music are proven has a high IQ compared to others.

I don't think so..i wonder who said that or wrote about it. Maybe they listen to music all the time and all too loud that ruins their hearing, or they do nothing but listen to music all day instead of working..?

I don't really believe that music can make you less stupid. Music actually enhances our minds. It has even been proven that listening to music during pregnancy enhances the development of the baby. Some even recommends listening to classical and nursery rhymes kind of music.

My son was an A/B student before he owns an iPod. When he got one, he seems to listen to it all the time even while studying and going to/coming from school. He keeps his grades, though, and I'm sure they are harder to maintain now that he's in upper high school years. I can't really tell him to not listening to music. Although I make sure he does not have the earbuds in during classes.

Well my sister was an honor student before but since when she was addicted in listening to music, she didn't get any academic honors at all. :)

Listen to music will let people smarter, The music poem words will increase the students' literal culture, the instruments will increase the skills and power of physical flexible, when enjoy music, people will more clever. Nobody would care the grades, the score are not including all, are there music class to identify score. You said the friends around you more c-d than a-b when listen music more. So the people sample are not including all. Everybody know scientists Einstain like to listen to music and can make invention after listen to music, Max is also good at music and math beside thinking.So wider of hobby will increase the personal ability and get great achievement.

Well, I don't know how to answer your question without a bias of some sort! My opinion is, though, that people who listen to music all the time don't concentrate as well as they think they do, so they probably don't learn as much as they could. However, grades in school isn't always the best indicator of intelligence. Getting high grades means that you've learned to answer what the teacher wants you to answer, rather than what you might really think.

It would depend on when they're listening to the music. If they're listening to music in class, well then no wonder they're not doing so well! I think when I was in school, kids with earbuds in all the time wound up not listening, not paying attention, or not concentrating on the work in front of them. I don't necessarily think it's the music, but rather the choice to listen to music while one should be focusing on learning.

No. It depends on the person and it depends on the way they listen to music. I read one time in a magazine that kids who grew up playing musical instruments are actually smarter and more intelligent than the ones who didn't. If we're talking about earphones here, then surely those who don't always use earphones get higher grades in class. That's just logic.

Wouldnt you think that the word or lyrics used music expand your vocabulary therefore helping you write better making you a smarter person? Also are you sure your d-c freinds listen to music all the time or are you assuming?