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SAT Scores And Musical Taste
Melodic:
According to this thing, Sufjan Stevens is for smart people. Make of this what you will.
DarkAvenger:
There was a similar study done a while ago, except it pertained to intelligence. My prediction? All of the comments will be the same as in this topic: http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,21036.0.html. It's kind of ridiculous to think someone will be set in their tastes judged solely on factors outside of music tastes. I've met idiots who listened to nothing but classical and geniuses who listened to nothing but pop punk. But at least it's interesting to see what "professionals" think.
Dimmukane:
I don't listen to music!
:-o
(I got a 1330)
rynne:
The dude had a Facebook crawler that looked at the reported music preferences of students at different universities and correlated it to the average SAT scores at the same university. It was done as a joke and/or discussion-starter.
From a Wall Street Journal blog who interviewed the guy about it:
--- Quote ---Griffith came up with the idea as a way to show how to take two separate sets of data that were pretty straightforward on their own — in this case, the average SAT score and the favorite books among students at various universities — and combine them to become more interesting. Griffith says, “Their unity is hilarity incarnate. This is to inspire people to think creatively about the data sets that are on the Internet.”
--- End quote ---
TheFuriousWombat:
Well I'm glad he doesn't take the experiment seriously. I was worried that it was attempting to draw some clear correlation which would have been pretty laughable considering the source of the information.
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