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I've listened to artists who after listening to I thought to myself "Wow... loving this rubbish says a lot about someone and how much they got going on in their head." Could one's musical tastes say something about intelligence? How about SAT scores? Well, like any good scientist, I decided to see how well my personal experience matches reality. How might one do this?

Well, here's one idea.

  1. Get a friend of yours to download, using Facebook, the ten most frequent "favorite music" at every college via that college's Network Statistics page on Facebook (manually -- as not to violate Facebook's ToS). These ten "favorite musics" are perhaps indicative of the overall intellectual milieu of that college.
  2. Download the average SAT/ACT score (from CollegeBoard) for students attending every college.
  3. Presto! We have a correlation between musical tastes and dumbitude (smartitude too)!Music <=> Colleges <=> Average SAT Scores
  4. Plot the average SAT of each "favorite music", discarding those with too few samples to have a reliable average.
  5. Post the results on your website, pondering what the Internet will think of it.
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Yes, I'm aware correlation ≠ causation. The results are hilarity incarnate regardless of causality.

You can stop sending me email about this distinction. Thanks.
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As a Counting Crows fan, I can only say... "Ha."
 
Wait... Where the hell is Yoko Ono on that list ??? Especially the new stuff she's been spouting out.
 
Do note, the author did say he discarded bands and acts which didn't get enough mentions on favorite lists.

I don't think Yoko Ono would be at the top of any campus's favorites list.

I'm actually surprised Ben Folds is on there. Whatever campus has that on their top ten list, I want in. :lol:

And chucklingly... the non-specific answers... such as "Gospel", "Jazz" and "Pop" score lower... apparently, not being able to make up your mind correlates negatively with SAT scores. :lol: Except when you answer "Country"... because... come on... they all sound the same, anyway.
 
niky
Except when you answer "Country"... because... come on... they all sound the same, anyway.
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Hey! We got ourselves 3 chords right here in our truck and by Jesus our jeans are beer-girls-dirt-road.
 
I always thought that Lil' Wayne was a terrible rapper (musician?). I guess that SAT scores confirm that fact. :lol: I just looked at a conversion from the SAT to the ACT since I took the ACT, and for those who took the ACT, Lil Wayne's music would be a score somewhere around 18. Now if I could remember what I got on the ACT so I could see what I listen to according to this....
 
niky
Oh my God! This is my song!

No... REALLY.
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"And I was like, Oh my god, this song is dumb, I've been listening to this mainstream crap way too long. Sittin' round hoping that don't hear this song, but here it is..... I was like oh god no, why'd they play this? 'Fore I could stop this it was blaring full blast. I was faceplaming 'cause I was embarrassed to play this garbage. So I had, head banging wall, head banging wall, head banging wall. Yeah I had, head banging wall, head banging wall, head banging wall.
 
nk4e
How does Beethoven fit in that list?
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A lot of people believed that people who frequently listen to classical music are smarter than most people. According this image (which can easily be debated there are a ton of artists who are not on here from every genre), that statement is true.
 
AnthonyD1993
A lot of people believed that people who frequently listen to classical music are smarter than most people. According this image (which can easily be debated there are a ton of artists who are not on here from every genre), that statement is true.
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Classical is on the dumber end, only Beethoven is smart.
 
Justin
Classical is on the dumber end, only Beethoven is smart.
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Oh, I just saw that. Either way, Classical music fans would score right around a 21 on an ACT which is the U.S. national average for the ACT. I think that that's part of the problem- I had no idea about what I was looking at and had to research it so that I could put it in perspective.
 
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All non-definite answers (Pop, Rock, Classical, Hip-hop, Jazz, Country) lie on the lower end of the chart. What that signifies to me is that people who don't know what their favorite music act is score lower than people who know exactly what they want to listen to.

Except, of course, people who want to listen to Li'l Wayne.
 
To be fair, they have kind of gone downhill.

Or it might be all those fans who came aboard after Steven Tyler judged on "Idol."
 
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So listening to Kanye West makes you smarter than listening to Aerosmith.

Yeah, sure it does.

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It's the other way around. If you're smart, it is more likely that you listen to Kanye West than Aerosmith. This is also entirely plausible, because Aerosmith is a really old band that I imagine isn't on a lot of current college students' minds. Kanye West on the other hand, is a relatively new artist that many young people listen to, including college students that do well on tests.
 
niky

Or it might be all those fans who came aboard after Steven Tyler judged on "Idol."
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That is a plausible explanation.


Pseudopod
It's the other way around. If you're smart, it is more likely that you listen to Kanye West than Aerosmith. This is also entirely plausible, because Aerosmith is a really old band that I imagine isn't on a lot of current college students' minds. Kanye West on the other hand, is a relatively new artist that many young people listen to, including college students that do well on tests.
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Same could be said about the students who listen to Aerosmith just not as many as they're an older band as you said.
 
With the exception of Hendrix and the Beatles, most of my favorite performers aren't even on that list. I mean the Doors, Simon & Garfunkel, Steppenwolf, Lovin' Spoonful, the Drifters, etc, etc.
 

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