I see that soca music is at the bottom. Soca is huge down here. Which is a shame, really, because the region is home to so many other, better musical genres.
Still, the chart seems to illustrate that there is a clear correlation between "doing poorly on the SATs" and "not actually being from the United States."
They don't have data on the SAT scores of students and their musical taste. They have data on the average SAT scores at schools and the popular music at these schools. This is going to strongly exaggerate any differences. I cant blame those guys for graphing the data they have though.
3: Please do. I'll join you.
"We don't actually have representative data, so we had to use this misleading data," is probably the most common justification for bullshit statistics out there.
Is there any value to this? Note that apparently liking classical music correlates with low SAT scores, while liking Beethoven correlates with astronomical SAT scores. I rest my case m'lud.
He has one for books too:
http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr
not sure what a Network Statistics page is:
"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)."
Turns out he went to the college with the highest average SAT score. Coincidence!!!
The books one in 7 is ickier. "African American" lit is the dumbest genre according to their chart. (Amusing side note: Dan Brown is apparently dumber than liking Da Vinci Code or Angels and Demons.)
The books one makes a little more sense, as, apart from a few (The Color Purple, Atlas Shrugged), particular titles are less bound to class, race, etc...
Of course the trouble on the other end remains.
And, Crime and Punishment is part of the genre "Classics", whereas Pride and Prejudice is "Chick Lit".
Hmm.
11: And Wuthering Heights is a classic, not chick lit. Also, Lolita is classed as "Erotica." Hm.
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No more creaming to Jack Bruce.
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No one counters with "Republicans are the party that impoverishes most of its constituents"?
I should pass this along to the friend who'll be teaching statistical graphics next semester, as a negative example...
16, 18: It's actually even stupider than than 18 suggests. Short version: in every state, the richer you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican. It's just that this is a stronger tendency in poorer states.
It's so stupid and yet so common that it has a name -- the ecological fallacy.
6: I love Ludwig and my test scores were indeed astronomical. This "science" is science.
If biohazard slooshies anyone not respecting his old friend Ludwig Van he'll tolchock them right in the gulliver.
17: Dammit, maybe I should've sent that to HG instead. One of my real, no-foolin' punk friends posted it elsewhere a few days ago.
Casting my mind back to 2009, when they gathered the data, I suspect I listened to most of the stuff on the chart. Maybe that makes me basic.
Actually the interesting thing is how many bands listed seem to have gone quiet in the last five years, both in terms of new work and in terms of airplay.
Maybe I just don't listen to the right channels.
Decent sociological research on social class and musical taste is well established and very interesting.
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Oh, hey, by the way: we just got married.
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Or agroom? (Congratulations!!!)
Congratulations! We are not going to demand a baby.
Not s/h now.
The babysplosion must be fed.
Still here for another two months. Ok, offline now.
Are you holding a receiving line right now or something?
Congratulations and best wishes to trapnel and IB!
We are not going to demand a baby.
Maybe they got hitched because he knocked her up.
Last dance of the night: "No Children".
And now to bed.
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Congratulations!
This chart better not make it to the Chinese media, or in the posh neighborhoods of Beijing there are going to be loudspeakers in blasting Beethoven 24/7, occasionally interspersed with a Sufjan Stevens album.
Congratulations! Best wishes for a happy life together.
Oh good lord, missed this. Hi, X, good news! Congratulations, Mr and Mrs Maclaren Ross!
Congratulations! (By now you've probably sobered up again. Tell us more.)