XPost: rec.puzzles, alt.usage.english   
   From: invalide@invalid.invalid   
      
   Jeff Barnett wrote:   
   > On 6/28/2025 11:27 PM, HenHanna wrote:   
   >> --   
   >> Cows apparently produce more milk if the farmer talks to them.   
   >> They say it's "In one ear and out the udder."   
   >   
   > I read something similar many years ago about human (expectant) mothers.   
   > If they had encouraging conversations and companionship, they produced   
   > more milk along with a better supply of hormones and other components of   
   > healthy and necessary body chemistry. It also seems that many   
   > publications claim something similar for plants. All joking aside, I am   
   > curious what/which of these stories are backed up by testable evidence.*   
   >   
   > * Several years ago, the TV program MYTH BUSTERS tested plants and they   
   > did not seem to respond. Other than that, is there any evidence for any   
   > of this family of myths?   
      
   Is this it?   
      
   https://mythresults.com/episode23   
      
   Talking helps plants grow.   
   PLAUSIBLE   
      
   Seven small greenhouses were set up on the M5   
   Industries roof. Four were set up with stereos   
   playing endlessly looping recordings (as having   
   the MythBusters actually talk to the plants could   
   contaminate the samples with their expelled carbon   
   dioxide): Two of negative speech, two of positive   
   speech (Kari and Scottie each made one positive   
   and one negative soundtrack), a fifth with   
   classical music and a sixth with intense death   
   metal music. A seventh greenhouse, used as a   
   control sample, had no stereo. The greenhouses with   
   the recordings of speech grew better than the   
   control, regardless of whether such talk was kind   
   or angry. The plants in the greenhouse with the   
   recording of classical music grew better, while the   
   plants in the greenhouse with the recording of   
   intense death metal grew best of all.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)