Does Lil Wayne make you dumb?
Alisa Harris Mar 07, 2009 3 COMMENTS SHARE
Guess which music makes you smart and which makes you dumb. A CalTech grad student, Virgil Griffith, did a study comparing SAT scores to music tastes. The highest-scoring people loved Beethoven (average SAT scores of 1371), and the lowest-scoring (SAT score of 889) loved Lil Wayne. Bands like Radiohead, Counting Crow, and Sufjan Stevens came in next for the high-scoring camp.
Of course, a study like this only proves correlation, not causation. Lil Wayne might not make you dumb ---- you might listen to him because you're already dumb. My guess is that it has more to do with environment than intelligence.
See the chart after the jump.
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Alisa Harris is deputy editor of Patrol and covers New York for World magazine.
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how about other variables that may impact your conclusions? how didyou control for that? anybody who’s ever taken a research course this is definetly not valid .
— derek addison · Mar 7, 04:57 PM · #
“My guess is that it has more to do with environment than intelligence.” That, Alisa, is what I tried to say but in a lot more words that made me sound like an idiot.
— Tim · Mar 8, 12:31 PM · #
Jazz and Gospel are right on Lil’ Wayne’s heels.
Uh-oh.
— Bigs · Mar 10, 01:00 AM · #