Music That Makes You Dumb? (you are what you listen to)

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Music That Makes You Dumb?

By Morelli

CalTech grad student named Virgil Griffith has conducted an interesting (albeit somewhat unscientific) study relating music preferences with SAT scores. While SAT scores are criticized for not accurately determining intelligence, the results show that the “smartest” students’ favorite musician is Beethoven, with an average SAT score of 1371, and at the other end of the spectrum is Lil’ Wayne, with an average score of 889.

Other bands at the top of the scale are Counting Crows, Radiohead, and Sufjan Stevens. Check out the full image of the results after the jump:

Surprisingly, no style of music stands out above the rest, but rather most bands fit within the 1000 to 1150 score range. Another question is whether music can be legitimately associated with smarts.

Does intelligence choose the band? Or does music define how smart we become? Where do your favorite bands appear? Do you think that music can make you dumb?

[SolidWood]

Wow I listen to Beethoven and Jazz... guess that makes me a genius idiot.

[PGR88]

Nothing new here.

In Japan and China, many parents believe strongly that their children listening to Mozart will make them smarter.

By some estimates, there are 30 million kids in China studying classical piano

Harry Truman performed several pieces by Franz Liszt for the attendees to the Postdam conference.

Our President now has Jay-Z and Lil’Wayne on his Ipod.

Should I assume we are all doomed?

[ozark hilljilly]

They Might Be Giants?
Oingo Boingo?
Warren Zevon?
Aaron Copeland?
Sparks?
Ravel?

I guess I are too esoteric to be smarticle ; )
(btw, I do remember the Doodah Band..can even still see the album cover in my mind. But for the life of me I can’t recall the song that got airplay.)

[TN4Liberty]

an interesting (albeit somewhat unscientific) study

Somewhat?

[woollyone]

let’s see the same survey about internet sites visited and news stations watched...

[dirtboy]

Oh yea, and where’s the good old Grateful Dead?

The Dead is in the listing - run down the 1116 line, it's about a quarter of the way down in a gray box.

[ozark hilljilly]

What? No Ramones?!
: )

[w4women]

I am a fan of Radiohead.

[Huck]

Ah, there they are. Respectable. The Dead had a lot of warts, but they offer a lot for the brain too (insert drug jokes here.) They melded jazz concepts of improvisation and modal jams, with the roots forms of blues, country, and bluegrass, and they had maybe the best rock lyricist ever in Robert Hunter.

[Tainan]

and no Captain Beefheart....Quicksilver Messenger Service?...Black Oak Arkansas?.....Rolling Stones?....tsk tsk tsk...

[Salamander]

No Jethro Tull or Blue Oyster Cult?

[ozark hilljilly]

Speaking of Beefheart...I didn’t see Zappa on that list, either. (but then again my eyes are older than my mental age.)

[My Favorite Headache]

Yes.

[Salamander]

“I Walk the Line”

;-D

[edpc]

I'm really suprised The Red Hot Chili Peppers break the 4 digit score mark with lyrical gems like this from songs like Around The World.

I know, I know for sure
Ding dang dong dong ding dang dong dong ding dang
I know, I know it's you
Ding dang dong dong ding dang dong dong ding dang

I guess I'm not intelligent enough to understand/appreciate it.

[Designer]

So Beethoven is "miscellaneous", eh?

Makes perfect sense to me.

No category for "classical".

Probably not a real category.

[dirtboy]

No Rush, either, one of the most intellectual of rock bands.

[dighton]

Great wits are sure to madness near alli’d;
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I looked for the Bonedaddies but didn’t see em either.

[ozark hilljilly]

Me too.
Ever seen any of their videos?
(Disclaimer: I actually enjoy their earlier works.)