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Pitch Perception Skewed By Modern Tuning
The feed deliverers us news of research suggesting that the use of A as the universal tuning frequency has made our ears less discerning of the notes immediately around it. Here's the abstract from PNAS describing research with people possessing the rare quality of "absolute pitch."
I wouldn't trust any study from Nelson Friemer. I took a Genetics class at UCSF when he was there. He gave a lecture,
and showed us a graph that didn't look right- as if the axes were swapped. The main lecturer for the class, Ira Herskowitz was sitting next
to me and noticed the same thing. I will always remember his comment- "Nelson, normally, in science, we align the dependent variable with the vertical axis when
trying to imply a functional relationship".
After that, I noticed pretty much everything he said showed a pernicious lack of rigor and every pitch study he's produced has been a load of bullcrap.
playing so it's MOVIE [imdb.com]
"In my experience, Perfect Pitch hearing is a learned ability."
Your experience is wrong.
"I had it while I studied and practiced music and I don't have it anymore."
Then what you had wasn't perfect pitch.
Anything else you'd like to be completely irrefutably wrong about, or are you done making an ass of yourself by being totally incorrect?