Books That Make You Dumb



Get a friend of yours to download, using Facebook, the ten most popular books at every college (manually — as not to violate Facebook’s ToS). These ten books are indicative of the overall intellectual milieu of that college. Download the average SAT/ACT score for students attending every college. Presto! We have a correlation between books and dumbitude (smartitude too)!

Books <=> Colleges <=> Average SAT Scores

Plot the average SAT of each book, discarding books with too few samples to have a reliable average. Post the results on your website, pondering what the Internet will think of it.

Click here to see the interesting results of this odd notion.

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About the Author

Ryan Sproull is mimetic engineer currently employed by Shift, a champagne anarchist, was editor of Craccum in '06, and is really quite an awful fellow. He can be contacted on editor @ SH1.