Link between SAT scores and music preference?

[Fukyo]

Re: Confirmed: Smart People listen to Radiohead/ Beethoven. Stupid people Hip Hop

lolwat.
Is no one going to touch this?

I think it's better that way. Why touch a steamy pile of poop? Could get it on your hand.

 

[Yellow]

Re: Confirmed: Smart People listen to Radiohead/ Beethoven. Stupid people Hip Hop

I don't follow this chart. My SAT score was higher than the chart accounts for. Does this mean I should've transcended the need for music altogether

Probably. I need music to live, and I didn't even take an SAT. My grades were so bad out of HS that nothing could get me straight into a proper university. The pattern follows.

We clearly need to test for music and GRE scores. You know, follow this flawless research through to its natural conclusion.

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

Re: Confirmed: Smart People listen to Radiohead/ Beethoven. Stupid people Hip Hop

The pattern follows.

Not really. The longer I go without listening to music the more and more uncomfortable I feel on a fundamental level.

Was trying to illustrate that the pattern is dumb.

 

[Yellow]

..... I was being less than 81% serious.

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

Oh, that's the problem. I'm always at least 87% serious. I think levity is a crime that should be punishable by exile.

 

[onesteptwostep]

Speaking of SAT scores..

http://www.koreatimesus.com/sat-scores-lag-but-asian-students-lead-in-college-ready-standard/

The nonprofit organization, which administers the exam, said only about 42 percent of test-takers, around 712,000 students, met a benchmark that indicates they’re likely ready for college-level work or career-training programs. The benchmark is a combined score of 1550 or higher for math, reading and writing. The percentage meeting that benchmark has largely remained the same in the last few years.
About 16 percent of African-Americans met that benchmark; 61 percent of Asian test-takers hit it, followed by about 53 percent of white test-takers, 33 percent of Native Americans and 23 percent of Hispanics.

>_>

<_<

btw it's sort of frightening that the benchmark is 1550, should be at least 150 points higher, at 1700, or something around it

 

[Urakro]

Re: Confirmed: Smart People listen to Radiohead/ Beethoven. Stupid people Hip Hop

I believe this was written by the chart's creator:

Spoiler

Well, here's one idea.

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.

Yes, I'm aware correlation ≠ causation. The results are hilarity incarnate regardless of causality.
You can stop sending me email about this distinction. Thanks.

This is pathetic even as a parody of itself.

I see Absurdity caught on to the parody as well. The first link in the OP contains a reporting article which missed the satire.

U2 is fucking stupid shit.

Agreed with above in all respects.
U2 is terrible.

Once a person has heard one U2 song, they've heard them all. I find they all sound exactly the same.

 

[emmabobary]

I hate radiohead. I score them as emo.
I can't see The Cure...

 

[Miss spelt]

I'm glad there is mostly agreement here that U2 is awful.

I don't get it, people try and make me think I'm the only one.

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

I hate radiohead.

me too...their sound is so try-hard, pretentious and dull

 

[Brontosaurie]

me too...their sound is so try-hard, pretentious and dull

Yes.

 

[Yellow]

Count me in on the whole "U2 is talentless and Radiohead tries too hard" thing. I also thought it was just me. U2, Bon Jovie, the Police/Sting, Bruce Springsteen, blech. I can't fathom why their followings exist. Radiohead aren't terrible, they just aren't as awesome as they think they are.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Radiohead aren't terrible, they just aren't as awesome as they think they are.

Actually finding someone who thinks they're as awesome as they really are is extremely difficult. All these people who don't should suffer more than they think they deserve to.

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

U2, Bon Jovie, the Police/Sting, Bruce Springsteen, blech. I can't fathom why their followings exist

also morrissey *whimpers* i hope i dont get fried for this
i think i find these artists in particular more annoying than others because of their mostly self-important fan base

 

[Brontosaurie]

also morrissey *whimpers* i hope i dont get fried for this
i think i find these artists in particular more annoying than others because of their mostly self-important fan base

You what now. Morrissey is legit. He made this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkwDcSV2Qdw

(in b4 no hotlink lololol)

which brings me to this which is also a work of untainted genius:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH6xBdexRTI

 

[TheManBeyond]

i haven't listen that much to morrisey but these songs are really good to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgxEJOi6GtA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS6B0GdCa9w

i think we should all agree that blink 182 is fucking awesome, if you haven't heard their joking sessions after each song live then you know nothing about them
plus their music is simple and powerful and catchy, please tell me how you classify something as stupid, why? because they are naked in half of their videos? because lyrics are meh? bro, they've got the humble attitude, that's a lot to me.
sure after them it came simple plan, and such enigmatic popy bands set to disgrace but blink, they were primal
i can't defend ludacris cuz i know 0 about him. too much to think about so i'm going to leave it here, but i suspect there's a difference between the direction some product has and its desired impact over layers of social classes and it's actual quality, something that is poorly represented in the graphic. dsjdojapdkamda

 

[TheManBeyond]

SPECIAL MENTION: ACDC WORST BAND EVER CREATED PERIOD

 

[emmabobary]

also morrissey *whimpers* i hope i dont get fried for this
i think i find these artists in particular more annoying than others because of their mostly self-important fan base

Robert Smith and I agree

 

[Miss spelt]

SPECIAL MENTION: ACDC WORST BAND EVER CREATED PERIOD

Pretty bad alright.