Sound Ledger (Childcare Issue)

Audio culture by the numbers

35: Percent faster that toddlers fell asleep in nurseries when classical music was played in a study

19: Percent faster for preschoolers

25,000,000: Fine, in $US, Amazon was hit with for the Alexa voice assistant reportedly violating child privacy

Sources: sleep (npr.orgthanks, Rich Pettus!), Alexa: (boston.com). And yes, “classical music” is a broad term. Presumably they weren’t playing Rachmaninoff.

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