[ExI] sat scores and musical tastes

[William Flynn Wallace]

Yeah, Darin, I saw that too.  ???    bill w

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 4:45 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> The plot may not be... /entirely/ rigorous, seeing as how "Beethoven" and
> "Classical" are on opposite ends of the spread. :)
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> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 3:29 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> > *On Behalf Of *SR Ballard via extropy-chat
>> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] sat scores and musical tastes
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>> There was a link at the bottom
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>> SR Ballard
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>> Here it is:
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>> https://www.labnol.org/internet/music-taste-linked-to-intelligence/7489/
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>> The title of the article claims one’s taste in music can reveal how smart
>> or dumb you are, but that isn’t right.  The SAT score can reveal how smart
>> or dumb you are, and how smart or dumb you are might reveal (to some
>> extent) what your taste in music might be.
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>> The article has it backwards.
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>> In any case… it worked.  I looked up my SAT score (OK, well off the right
>> side of the scale (sheesh no wonder I was clobbered at the Humility
>> Olympics)) and found Sufjan Stevens.  Never heard of him or her, so…
>> Google, found him, I like it.
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>> Down there on the wrong end is Hip Hop, Lil Wayne (never heard of him)
>> Beyonce (isn’t she model or something?) T.I. (never heard of him or her)
>> sheesh most of this stuff I never heard of on both ends of the scale.  I
>> fear that I am terminally not hip.
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>> I see two of my favorites in there, Eagles, Beatles, Johnny Cash, Josh
>> Groban.
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>> Some of these I really don’t get: Bob Dylan?  Most of the time he wasn’t
>> even trying to sing as far as I could tell.  Where is Roy Orbison on this
>> chart?  Glenn Campbell?  John Denver?
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>> Can anyone suggest a reason why it is that our musical taste seems to be
>> somehow determined in our childhood, then doesn’t change much after that
>> for most of us?  BillW or anyone, why?
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>> spike
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