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Here's a chart that presents correlation between SAT scores and favourite books. The horizontal axis is the SAT score, the vertical means nothing.

How does that make you feel, /lit/?

>> No.1472108

>>1472103
mainly confused as to why the scale only goes up to 1400, I mean that's not a particularly good score, so none of this data really means anything.

>> No.1472109

Troll.

Most of these books are AP books, and my SAT score beats most of these with only two and I've read most of those books.

>> No.1472107

>>1472103
Oh, and source.

http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/

>> No.1472121

>>1472109
Here's his methodology. Very questionable.

>1. Get a friend of yours to download, using Facebook, the ten most frequent "favorite books" at every college via that college's Network Statistics page on Facebook (manually -- as not to violate Facebook's ToS). These ten books are perhaps indicative of the overall intellectual milieu of that college.
>2. Download the average SAT/ACT score (from CollegeBoard) for students attending every college.

>> No.1472129

>>1472121

haha horrible sampling technique. Also I think the graph needs to distinguish by what is mandatory and what is read out of enjoyment.

>> No.1472134

That would be very interesting if done right. So far the only thing it says is that Christian colleges have low SATs.

>> No.1472137

>>1472103
>Pride and Prejudice
>Chick Lit

>> No.1472140

>Lolita
>Erotica
That's appalling.

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1472141

>Lolita
>erotica

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1472146

Same thing by genre

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1472150

wat?

>> No.1472152

Atlas Shrugged is a book for plebeians, your chart means nothing.

Also SAT scores aren't an indicator of intelligent, but how much you've learned about a select number of subjects.

>> No.1472157

>>1472152
>Also SAT scores aren't an indicator of intelligent
It seems like nothing is.

>> No.1472158

Herro:
>>>/sci/2370671

>> No.1472162

Catch 22 is alright...but Atlas Shrugged is a flaming pile of shit!

>> No.1472165

>>1472157

IQ, and that's not even very accurate.

>> No.1472172

Fascinating

>> No.1472178

IQ scores are for children. There are no real definitions or indicators for intelligence.

>> No.1472181

>>1472165
Define "intelligence" beyond "what is measured by intelligence test".

>> No.1472182

this just in, middling high schoolers read mainstream books

>> No.1472185

>>1472182

"mainstream"

Get over yourself.

>> No.1472193

>>1472181
There's like this G and like you can measure it and stuff, and it like correlates a bit with what people think is smart and stuff, and it's totally not racist, forget about the racial stuff in the US since it took off there...

>> No.1472197

ўот іф ай онлі рід фаукс-циріллік?

>> No.1472210

>>1472197
*ШНАТ ІF І ОИГУ ЯЕАD FАЦХ-СУЯІГГІС?

>> No.1472237

>>1472193
Bloody American racism. Seriously, Americans, I like your culture but what the fuck?

>> No.1472436

So people who enjoyed atlas shrugged aren't completely retarded?
Learn something every day.

>> No.1472455

>>1472185
be quiet you. the range of sats is low and we are talking about high schoolers, so the upper range of this chart still contains a great deal of shit books as expected.

>> No.1472524

Harry Potter is "better" than A Clockwork Orange... cmon