New topic
Printable| Author | Message |
|
What's Smarts, Got To Do, Got To Do With It? Beyonce fans 'among least intelligent but Beethoven fans are cleverest'Your taste in music reflects your intelligence with fans of Beyonce among the most stupid and Beethoven listeners the cleverest, it is claimed. Beyonce fans scored below average in exams, according to the findings Photo: REUTERS
11:01AM GMT 13 Mar 2009 Fans of Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z also ranked poorly in terms of IQ and lovers of rapper Lil' Wayne were deemed least intelligent.The study was carried out by Virgil Griffiths, a PhD student in America, who compared students' scores in SAT exams with their favourite music acts and genres by analysing data on social networking sites. Those who prefer indie music are most intelligent, while pop, rock and gospel fans were all ranked at the lower end of the scale. Fans of legendary acts like Queen, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra and Bob Marley are all around average and above when it comes to intelligence, according to Griffiths. Radiohead, U2 and Bob Dylan all have intelligent fans, he said. Related Articles
Fans of Beyonce, Timberlake and Jay-Z all tended to score below 1,000 on SAT scores, with the average being a mark of 1071 out of 1600.Fans of Beethoven were way ahead of the rest with an average score of over 1300.On his website, musicthatmakesyoudumb, Griffith describes the results of his study as "hilarity incarnate".He introduces the test by saying: "I've listened to artists who after listening to I thought to myself 'Wow... loving this rubbish says a lot about someone and how much they got going on in their head'. Could one's musical tastes say something about intelligence?" |
- E-mail - orgNote -  Report post to moderator |
|
I seem to recall a survey once that said Prince fans were the best in bed. |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
moderator
I guess I'm an outlier. I love Beyonce and the SATs were easy. "Keep in mind that I'm an artist...and I'm sensitive about my shit."--E. Badu | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Someone commented on this "study" like this: "People who do well in school like boring music. What a surprise." | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |