People have different ways their brain is wired. What’s absurd for you doesn’t make it a good test for universal experience.

Trance is distracting for me, but melodic progression works well for me, and sometimes vocal chillout trance. I still have to process random stuff with background noise from an urban setting, even on one of those noise generators.

Back when I was living in a more rural setting, the song birds, the wind between the trees, the rain makes for something that is easier for me to focus.

That is what works for me. My wife has difficulty concentrating without Netflix in the background.

I just feel like the practicality of it is silly. Music doesn't help you focus, compared to what? Pure silence?

Music helps me focus more than say, a noisy coffee shop.

Given how many people are saying that they need music to concentrate, I was thinking something along the same lines and realized that listening to music doesn't necessarily contradict the study. It may simply be a case of people using music to pull their attention back to the task at hand in cases where the environment would pull their attention away.

As someone with ADHD, the background noise of real life is really distracting to me. I need noise cancellation headphones which play no sound to really deeply focus.

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