It’s Official, Jay-Z, Beyonce Fans Are Dumb-Dumbs
I’m not sure how scientific this is, but according to a PhD student who runs the website, MusicThatMakesYouDumb.com, one’s taste in music is a direct indicator of one’s intelligence as well. The scholar came to the conclusion by comparing SAT scores and data-mining music tastes from sites like Facebook or MySpace.com. From the Telegraph.uk article:
Fans of Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z also ranked poorly in terms of IQ and lovers of rapper Lil’ Wayne were deemed least intelligent.
The study was carried out by Virgil Griffiths, a PhD student in America, who compared students’ scores in SAT exams with their favourite music acts and genres by analysing data on social networking sites.
Those who prefer indie music are most intelligent, while pop, rock and gospel fans were all ranked at the lower end of the scale.
Fans of legendary acts like Queen, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra and Bob Marley are all around average and above when it comes to intelligence, according to Griffiths.
Radiohead, U2 and Bob Dylan all have intelligent fans, he said.
Fans of Beyonce, Timberlake and Jay-Z all tended to score below 1,000 on SAT scores, with the average being a mark of 1071 out of 1600.
Fans of Beethoven were way ahead of the rest with an average score of over 1300.
On his website, musicthatmakesyoudumb, Griffith describes the results of his study as “hilarity incarnate”.
He introduces the test by saying: “I’ve listened to artists who after listening to I thought to myself ‘Wow… loving this rubbish says a lot about someone and how much they got going on in their head’. Could one’s musical tastes say something about intelligence?”
You know that’s kind of an interesting experiment, but not entirely accurate. I know plenty of intelligent people who have the WORST taste in music and plenty of stupid people who have pretentious taste in music. That said, I agree, people who listen to Beyonce, Jay-Z and Lil’ Wayne, seem like complete dumbasses to me.
Of course, I only listen to 80’s New Wave, so I guess that makes me not only mentally challenged, but two decades behind. Oh well, ignorance is bliss!
Source: D
