, , and Beethoven are musicians that smart people listen to, and Lil Wayne, Beyonce and the Used are for dumb people,
Griffith plotted a person’s average SAT/ACT score with their 10 most frequent favorite music choices on Facebook and came up with the above graph (click to enlarge) that compares the two.
The results, while not the most scientific, are still pretty funny: Counting Crows are kinda smart, as are the Beatles, the Shins, Beck and Ben Folds. T.I., Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Aerosmith, Hinder, Nickelback and Kenny Chesney all lean toward the dumb side of things. Then there’s the middle ground bands like Pearl Jam, Jimi Hendrix, Coldplay, Green Day and others.
To be honest, we’re a little shocked that Nickelback wasn’t ranked a little lower, like at or below zero.
You can take a
Here’s Griffith’s process:
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.
Download the average SAT/ACT score (from CollegeBoard) for students attending every college.
Presto! We have a correlation between musical tastes and dumbitude (smartitude too)!
Music Colleges Average SAT Scores
Plot the average SAT of each “favorite music”, discarding those with too few samples to have a reliable average.
Post the results on your website, pondering what the Internet will think of it.
This graph of music vs intelligence reminds us of that
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