Music tastes and Intelligence...A link has been found.
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So fans of Lil Wayne and Nickelback ARE retarded. I knew it all along!
Also I'm glad to see Tool have quite a low score because they have the most annoying, arrogant "you're not intelligent enough to get it", fanbase of any band I know of. They're like normal metalheads but 10x worse.(Apologies to any Tool fans reading this who aren't like that, but I have yet to meet one who isn't)
Norah Jones? Jazz? BAH! Get out! I think if they'd acctualy had some proper jazz artists in the survey then jazz would've scored far higher.
Also I'm glad to see Tool have quite a low score because they have the most annoying, arrogant "you're not intelligent enough to get it", fanbase of any band I know of. They're like normal metalheads but 10x worse.(Apologies to any Tool fans reading this who aren't like that, but I have yet to meet one who isn't)
Norah Jones? Jazz? BAH! Get out! I think if they'd acctualy had some proper jazz artists in the survey then jazz would've scored far higher.
IT'S NOT A SURVEY!speedcoreXdandy said:
They take a college's average SAT score as reported by the college, have someone mine the college's Facebook network thing for a list of the school's top musical favorites, and then plop a blob on the graph.
-- Alex
That's all well and good, when I'm in the mood. But for the most part, I'd rather have Metallica - Invisible Kid played in drop C.Matronadena said:
Jesus no! I hate Radiohead.Horticulture said:
Give me campy 70s/80s metal, give me hard rock, give me "singer/songwriter"-y music with awesome female vocals, give me the parodic musical soundtrack from Lexx's "Brigadoom", give me moderate doses of prog rock and space rock and acid rock, I will listen to all of those gladly...
But keep Radiohead the fuck away from me.
-- Alex
Hmm...
Upon comparing the grapsh and the data [http://musicthatmakesyoudumb.virgil.gr/schools.php], I have decided that the graph sucks even more than I first thought. It would seem intuitive to make the blobs represent some kind of range -- certainly it would be nice to know whether a particular musical act has a wide or narrow spread among different "tiers" of colleges. But that's not what the graph is doing. It's just putting the blobs near some kind of adjusted average or median or whatever.
If Band A gets set at 1050 because everybody likes it and that's the average score for all the schools tracked, that's very different from Band B being set at 1050 because only people from schools in the 1000-1100 area happen to like the band.
So all we really know from this graph is that only White People [http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/] like U2, Radiohead, and Counting Crows.
-- Alex
Upon comparing the grapsh and the data [http://musicthatmakesyoudumb.virgil.gr/schools.php], I have decided that the graph sucks even more than I first thought. It would seem intuitive to make the blobs represent some kind of range -- certainly it would be nice to know whether a particular musical act has a wide or narrow spread among different "tiers" of colleges. But that's not what the graph is doing. It's just putting the blobs near some kind of adjusted average or median or whatever.
If Band A gets set at 1050 because everybody likes it and that's the average score for all the schools tracked, that's very different from Band B being set at 1050 because only people from schools in the 1000-1100 area happen to like the band.
So all we really know from this graph is that only White People [http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/] like U2, Radiohead, and Counting Crows.
-- Alex
I never said anything absolute.Abedeus said:
"Someone with a high I.Q. might appreciate classical music more than others"
It just means intelligent people tend to appreciate his works more than the other side of the I.Q. spectrum.
Okay, here's an example:Abedeus said:
If you look at the top dozen schools, Radiohead and Coldplay are pretty much neck-and-neck (no surprise... they are both SWPL). So, why is Radiohead leading its little pack at ~1220 while Coldplay, at ~1120, sits close to the middle of the "rock" blob? We just looked at the list and saw that "smart" people like both, right?
Because people who don't go to the top-rated schools still like Coldplay.
Is Christian music where it is because only kinda-average-scoring kids like Christian music or because everybody loves Christian music equally so it averages out to average? The graph can't show that! And it would actually be pretty easy to put in, and it would make the graph at least moderately informative.
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Or, here, check this out:
Why is every genre label situated at the bottom of its genre category? (In particular, why is Beethoven this crazy outlier at ~1360 while "Classical" sits at a very modest ~970?) What does this tell us?
It tells us that more privileged kids are more likely to identify with individual bands rather than entire genres. That's really the most useful bit of information to come out of the whole graph.
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The design of the data representation is terrible. There's tons of data that could be extracted from the table that isn't. The pretty bubbles are hiding bad design. I expect much, much more from a guy doing Ph.D. research in data-mining at Caltech.
-- Alex
Queen and Kate west are on the same scale? Queen and Kate west. yeah this graph makes no sense at all
Interesting note: people who didn't bother to name bands in specific but only genres placed lower in every case. Does this mean that indecisive people don't do well? Quite likely, I'd say. My picks tended to float toward the right side, I was surprised at the higher scores in a few places, say AC/DC >> Aerosmith, but I prefer AC/DC and got 1500/1600 on the SAT so who knows.
Personally, I feel as if different tastes might reflect different neurologies and learning styles, not different levels of intelligence. One of my beliefs is that everyone is intelligent about different things, to varying degrees.