Song complexity does not appear to explain female
preference for Solver song
Solver and Non-Solver songs did not differ significantly in any measures
of complexity: song length (average Solver song length=4.5 seconds,
average Non-Solver song length=3.97 s,; T=0.384, DF=5, P=0.461), number
of phrases (average Solver phrases=5.83, average Non-Solver phrases=4,;
T=3.84, DF=5, P=0.012), phrase length (average Solver phrase
length=0.834 s, average Non-Solver phrase length=0.844 s; T= -0.052,
DF=5, P=0.961), number of elements per phrase (average Solver
elements=5.25, average Non-Solver elements=4.92,; T=0.353, DF=5,
P=0.739), and number of unique elements (average Solver unique
elements=5.33, average Non-Solver unique elements=5.5,; T=-0.143, DF=5,
P=0.892). However, our power to
determine an effect of one standard deviation given an alpha of 0.01 is
0.194, so we cannot say with confidence that Solvers and Non-Solvers in
general do not have a difference in song complexity.