Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer covering tech news. Previously, he was a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has had recent work featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, as well as McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives outside Indianapolis.
ArticleBody:The ability to identify or produce any musical note from memory without reference, aka true perfect pitch, is a rare gift. In fact, less than one in 10,000 people have it—but you don’t need the ability to spontaneously recall a melody with decent accuracy. If anything, you may not be as tone deaf as you think.
To test the accuracy of people’s average absolute pitch abilities, researchers utilized involuntary musical imagery, more commonly known as earworms. Over the course of a two-week study, 30 volunteers received six text notifications at semi-random intervals throughout the day. If a song happened to be stuck in their head at that moment, participants then recorded themselves singing the tune as accurately as possible.
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