[ExI] sat scores and musical tastes

[spike at rainier66.com]

> On Behalf Of SR Ballard via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] sat scores and musical tastes

 

There was a link at the bottom

SR Ballard

 

 

 

 

Here it is:

 

https://www.labnol.org/internet/music-taste-linked-to-intelligence/7489/

 

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.

 

The article has it backwards.

 

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.

 

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.

 

I see two of my favorites in there, Eagles, Beatles, Johnny Cash, Josh Groban.

 

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?

 

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?

 

spike

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