This chart just shows the average of each group, and probably discludes outliers or they are not represented fairly by the data. Also, it didn’t do anything to explain why the relationship between SAT scores and music was there, it just shows data that they collected. I know a genius who loves rage against the machine and did very well on his SAT in 8th grade. So this data doesn’t really tell me anything about what people who are really smart like, just a general trend. And the chart is only racist because it is the truth that people who are african american generally score lower on the SAT, not necessarily because of genes but because of environment while growing up, it’s not racism if it’s documented and true

Counting Crows? Above The Beatles? Really?
Did this come from the Counting Crows website?

The book version of this is also kind of racist.

This is absurd. I usually REALLY like the stuff you usually post Peggy, but this one is misleading at best and prejudiced at worst. Since the SAT mostly measures whether you come from a privileged demographic (white, male, wealthy family, urban, private school attendance) rather than actual achievement, this music chart simply reflects social, racial and religious demographics, not (what the figure implies) that intelligence is somehow correlated to musical taste, which is nonsense. Most of the music selections listed at the lower end are more popular among minorities, whereas those at the top tend to be popular among Caucasians. Speaking solely for myself, I come from what you would call the priviledged end of the spectrum (White male, grew up wealthy etc.), did well on the SAT and my music tastes are not even remotely reflected in this chart either by artist or genre. UGH, I resent the person who actually took the time to cobble together this wonderful example of how to lie with statistics. Non-random sampling indeed.

Keep in mind that Griffith a) Took music tastes off of college student Facebook profiles, and then b) combined those data with the average SAT score for the college each student attended. The results are, in truth, next to meaningless, but it’s a neat idea! Also, U2 sucks.

Counting Crows should extend to 1590 because that’s what I got and what I listen to exclusively.

In a Moment of Clarity, Jay-Z admits that he targets the low SAT folks: “I dumb down for my audience, to double my dollars
They criticize me for it, yet they all yell “Holla”
If skills sold, truth be told
I’d probably be lyrically, Talib Kweli
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense(But i did five Mil)
I ain’t been rhymin like Common since”

What if I not only really like Outkast but also like that song from Speakerboxx on which Jay-Z rapped? And are we really to believe that apart from Techno Country is the genre with the smartest fans? I’m from Georgia. I know for a fact that that notion is bullshit.

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I got 13-something … so do I not like music? Or is this the new point system?

no intelligent people still (or ever if you’re really smart) like the counting crows.

Yeah, the very idea that Jay-Z doesn’t span the whole chart is a bit limited. And fans of the Red Hot Chili Peppers probably don’t make it to senior year. They’re essentially juggalo’s with less clothing and less aggressive tattoos.

I can’t believe Kanye West broke 1000

It looks kind of racist because it’s based on something inherently biased. But, everyone already knows that, I’m sure. Veronica, it most prob looks the same for the old scoring system, just change the numbers on top. Oh and in case I need to clarify, this is stupid.

lol…oh OF COURSE radiohead is near the top, right? jesus christ.

uh, so deep and insightful study…
intelligence is more related to the variety of the music you listen to, than your favorite band/genre. Ok, music-nazis will always want to think the other way. They are so intelligent, when they say ‘my music is better than yours’…

I only got a 990 and I like Stravinsky. Proof that this is shiite.

Wait, are these based on the confusing new scoring system? Can you translate it for the Olds?

I know from experience that when your score is too high to fit on the chart it loops back around to Jay-Z. In fact, that phenomena explains why so many Jews like hip hop.