<div dir="auto">Lol @ Spike discovering Sufjan Stevens XD<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Decade or two too late my friend :P</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">SAT scores only show how prepared you are to take the SAT. Can be for a variety of reasons. Some very very smart people who I know also did not great on the SAT.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I missed one question off a perfect SAT score but I love Little Wayne (his wordplay is excellent.)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 17:28 spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_5736903977048473316WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>SR Ballard via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] sat scores and musical tastes<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">There was a link at the bottom<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">SR Ballard<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Here it is:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.labnol.org/internet/music-taste-linked-to-intelligence/7489/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.labnol.org/internet/music-taste-linked-to-intelligence/7489/</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The article has it backwards.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I see two of my favorites in there, Eagles, Beatles, Johnny Cash, Josh Groban.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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