Stupid books.

[Feba]

Booksthatmakeyoudumb

Pretty interesting. I wouldn't have expected Lolita to be so high.

[Murphie]

Re: Stupid books.

Why not?

[Feba]

Re: Stupid books.

Why so?

[Murphie]

Re: Stupid books.

No reason in particular. I'm not a huge fan of it, myself. But I was curious why you were surprised to see it so high.

[Feba]

Re: Stupid books.

No particular reason. Not expecting something to do well isn't a belief it will do poorly.

[DakAttack]

Re: Stupid books.

That site had nothing to do with books that make people stupid.

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Stupid books.

So, the further left the book, the "dumber" it was?

Or, am I reading it wrong?

[Murphie]

Re: Stupid books.

The further left it was, the dumber the reader was.

[Caspian]

Re: Stupid books.

Well, the graph should really be labeled differently for all the information it gives, but in the FAQ he says how "I don't read" scored 950-~980 and there are 13 books below that mark. So by his logic those 13 books make you dumber.
Was surprised that Freakonomics is popular enough to be on the list, but nothing by Tom Clancy. And in light of Freakonomics: is it that those 13 books make you dumber? Or is it that people of lesser intelligence find those books to be their favorite?

Yeah YM: the number up top is the SAT score and from what I understand he did, was to find the most popular books on Facebook and find the average SAT score of the people who posted those books as being their favorite.

[Feba]

Re: Stupid books.

I believe he went by the average popularity of the books at certain schools, compared with that school's average SAT scores, not individuals.

[Caspian]

Re: Stupid books.

I believe he went by the average popularity of the books at certain schools, compared with that school's average SAT scores, not individuals.

That would make more sense. Haven't dived too deep into facebook to know if people actually posted their SAT scores. Only took the ACT myself.

[Mhurron]

Re: Stupid books.

Is Green Eggs and Ham on that list? I love that book.

[Skoal]

Re: Stupid books.

That would make more sense. Haven't dived too deep into facebook to know if people actually posted their SAT scores. Only took the ACT myself.

I thought facebook was kinda like myspace. What loser puts their SAT score on a social site? Anyway I also only took that ACT.

Come to think of it, I made almost the same score on the ACT in 8th grade as I did my senior year. I should have just taken the money and gone to college at 14!

[Neomage]

Re: Stupid books.

The Holy Bible was in the top 10 "Stupid" books...

I lol'ed

[Nuriko]

Re: Stupid books.

Probably because of those people for which it's not just one of their favourite books, it's the ONLY book worth reading. Everything else would just be assignments to them...