[GSlob]

"Did Murray account for the language bias and how? "
That's why, as you could see from my partially reprinted list of his "qualified sources" on Western music, he was trying to pick English, American, Italian, German, French, Danish etc. sources - to eliminate, minimize, or average out cultural bias in the statistical treatment of the averaged totals. The French could be thought to be partial to Debussy, but why would the Americans be?

[Dark Knight]

That tends to be my point. Murray attempts to measure a social issue using his judgement to limit his data. Did he use Slavic sources, and once you go there, how do you weigh the evidence?

My simple movie search indicates Wagner was under represented. The degree of underrepresentation is vast. Wagner may be ranked above Beethoven and Bach. I doubt there was a concerted effort to insert Wagner in the movie database, so the question is always: How do you know, what you know?

ToEs have a vast following, and few applications. Genetics has a vast following and vast applications. How in the world could Darwinism have more of an impact than genetics and the discovery of DNA in biology?

DK