News and views from the Books that make you dumb?
Cal Tech grad student Virgil Griffith believes that some books make you dumb. He compared average SAT scores with the 10 most popular books (as posted in Facebook) at the 1,352 colleges in the database. Then he made a nice graphic to display the results. You can also review the results by genre, title, school, and any other clickable item in the data set.
Of course, there's always the chicken-and-egg question about whether or not the books make you dumb or if you read these books because you are already dumb. Virgil pulled the genre labels from LibraryThing, another wonderful but prone-to-human-quirkiness creation. He got some flak about the assignment of certain books, which prompted this announcement on the site:
Via Jessamyn, who got it from LISnews.
Of course, there's always the chicken-and-egg question about whether or not the books make you dumb or if you read these books because you are already dumb. Virgil pulled the genre labels from LibraryThing, another wonderful but prone-to-human-quirkiness creation. He got some flak about the assignment of certain books, which prompted this announcement on the site:
Update: I changed Lolita from 'Erotica' and 'Pride and Prejudice' from 'Chick Lit' both to Classics. You Literature majors all lack any sense of humor.'Scuse me while I go reread Lolita.
Via Jessamyn, who got it from LISnews.
posted by franceylibrarian at 9:00 AM
1 Comments:
Hmm....shouldn't any book in the "classics" genre also fit in another genre? "Classics" seems a metatag or description of quality more than a genre to me.
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