New Study Says, If You Listen to Lil Wayne, You're Stupid!
Data for the study was gathered from Facebook. The study's author found kids from different colleges across the US, and compared their favorite music to the average SAT scores from those schools. According to the results, Lil Wayne fans had the lowest SAT score at 876, giving his fans the dreaded title of "dumbest fans," while fans bands like Radiohead, Counting Crows and singer Sufjan Stevens ranked in the 1200s. Fans of Beethoven ranked the highest at 1376. A perfect SAT score is 1600.
The study called Musicthatmakesyoudumb [sic] was conducted by famous American hacker Virgil Griffith, a 2007 University of Alabama graduate, who gives lectures at hacker conferences all across the Nation. A previous study by Griffith called Booksthatmakeyoudumb, listed "The Holy Bible" as one of the books read most often by individuals with low SAT scores, and "Lolita" as well as "100 Years of Solitude" on the highest end of the scale. The study's popularity with his peers inspired Griffith to find out which bands and genres of music were popular with people with certain SAT scores.
Much like Griffith's previous study Booksthatmakeyoudumb, which listed "The Holy Bible" as the one of the books read by those with low SAT scores, Gospel was the dumbest music genre with an average SAT score of 916. Closely following Gospel music is Hip Hop and Jazz. Despite the high number of smarties who listen to Beethoven, classical music rated low, at a dim 976. Ironically, techno was the highest rated genre at 1056. In this study, most Individual groups rated much higher than genres.
Many people are outraged by this study, calling it judgmental, ignorant and racist, despite Griffith's attempt at gathering a good cross-section of America . When this study made its way to TMZ, straight A students and college graduates who scored high on their SATs came out of the woodwork to show their love for Lil Wayne. Most people seemed to despise the message of generalization.
I can see how some artists are more cerebral than others. I only know one Lil Wayne fan, and can honestly say she is a complete rock who can't spell or put together a complete, intelligent thought to save her life, but that doesn't mean I lump all of his fans in a similar "challenged" category. Not all of Rufus Wainwright's fans are gay. Not all fans of emo groups wear black and want to kill themselves. Many people who are into classical music and play classical instruments love Jay Z and Eminem because their songs have unique rhythms and flows that come off as fresh and fun to those who study classical.
The big lesson here? Although generalization is dangerous, facts are facts, and averages are just that. No matter what the averages are, you will find Lil Wayne fans spanning the entire SAT score spectrum.
Sources:
http://thegrip.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/sat-scores-vs-music-you-listen-to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Griffith
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29 Comments
Post a Comment@Chelsey - as an atheist I do agree with you about fundamentalists, and that a lot of people who read the bible are dumb to begin with, however, on the same topic of religion, there have been hundreds of studies done that suggest a correlation between intelligence and theism. As belief goes up IQ goes down. Only 14% of people with an IQ of over 140 (genius) have some sort of theistic belief. Only about 20% of scientists are theists and as far as jobs go, it requires more brain power to be a scientist than it does to do almost anything else, because it is more conceptual as opposed to memorization. Now I am not suggesting that religion makes you dumb and I am not suggesting that you are dumb because you are a christian, but for the same reason that lil' wayne fans are dumb, religion attracts the stupid because it is an easy way of grasping why things happen.
lil wane is actually a smart guy and he is the best he is also a mentor to me
Hey! I like to listen to classical music and I'm still dumb as a rock D:
Einstein read the bible...was he dumb?
true, they can't spell right. they say the same "insults" (haters) and most of them are fags.
this is stupid.listening to lil wayne doesn't make you stupid. For you even writing a article like this makes you seem real DUMB
(Cont'd)... every genre of music has its wonderful and its terrible. Rap shouldn't be vilified so much. Oh and George, you're an idiot for generalizing ANY genre of music when you probably haven't listened to anything other than what's played on the radio and music channels. There is good rap music, it's just not in the mainstream. BTW, I wish there would be character count so that posters know when they've reached their limit as opposed to having them type a super-long post only to see it have more than half of it hacked off when they click "Post Comment".
I agree with Chelsey, listening to Lil Wayne in general doesn't necessarily make you dumb, as there are some conservative middle-aged people who confess to being Wayne fams. Even Obama says he likes Lil Wayne. He has a very diverse fanbase. However, listening to JUST Lil Wayne and other dumb rappers, that will indeed make you stupid. And if go on any website that discusses Lil Wayne, scroll down to the comments section and 90% of the comments will be from people that can't use proper English to save their lives. Also, this study is rather biased. It only takes a couple of artists from each genre, and compares them. Rap music is so much more diverse than Lil Wayne and T.I. On the same token, Radiohead and Sufjan Stevens doesn't represent the whole spectrum of rock music. Why not redo this study with people that listen to Tupac, Talib Kweli and Common, and people who listen to Nickelback, My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy? You may see that the results will be in reverse. That's right,
haha I knew it! Wayne fans really are retards!
Of course little Wayne fans are retarded... Little boy Wayne can't even make ONE decent song...