Typical fans of overweight metal music have humbled self-esteem and don't like to ferment hard, according to new findings.
But the sketch into how closely music tastes and personalities ar related besides found that metal fans were loosely more soft and at ease with themselves than followers of music genres.
The research, which was undertaken by a professor at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, is the first time the relationship has been studied in such detail.
Like metal fans, indie medicine lovers were also found to birth low self-pride but the study revealed that they tend to be more creative.
Whereas, following of genres like Reggae, Rap and chart music were all found to share high confidence levels and a gentle personality.
Commenting on the study, which were accrued from answers by 36,000 people, Professor Adrian North aforesaid advertisers should take eminence about the results.
"If you know a person's music preference you can say what kind of person they are, who to sell to,� he said.
"There are obvious implications for the music manufacture who ar are apprehensive about declining CD gross revenue.
"One of the well-nigh surprising things is the similarities between fans of classical music and heavy metal. They're both creative and at ease but not outgoing.
"The general public has held a stereotype of heavy alloy fans being suicidally depressed and of being a danger to themselves and society in general. But they ar quite delicate things."
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