JimJ[VT];8216264 said:Selection bias makes me cry.
Yeah. I find the basic idea interesting, but the execution sucks. Take the AVERAGE ACT score of a selected university, then look at Facebook to find out what Facebook-posting students like...ugh.
Now, if this were done right...
Seconded. What's so smart about Radiohead anyway? No offense, Radiohead fans, but I just fail to see the dots connecting a specific rock band with intelligence.Jazz and Classical, as genres, are on the low end. I find that highly unlikely - those types of music are more abstract, which should correlate with high scores for whatever it is that the SAT measures. I also noted that the absolute top rated artist was Beethoven - Mozart and Bach weren't on the list, nor were Miles, Monk or Trane. Maybe they were all off the scale
BTW Miles, Monk, Coltrane, Beethoven and Mozart do not have Facebook pages to Like, do they? Elvis?
JimJ[VT];8216473 said:
Clearly!
The main thing I gleaned from this is the broader the appeal, the larger the sample size, [and] the more average the SAT score.
Seconded. What's so smart about Radiohead anyway? No offense, Radiohead fans, but I just fail to see the dots connecting a specific rock band with intelligence.
Depends on they type of jazz. Avant Garde Jazz - yes. Others no.
As far as Radiohead - don't know but they seem like a lot of the other bands out there who are so full of themselves. They are not musical geniuses - Frank Zappa, yes - Paul Weller - hell yes - and there are many others. people who put out music for the sake of music.
You want to compare Thom to Ian Dury? Ian Dury was a musician, a poet, a painter. He has been called a renaissance man - look here - http://www.iandury.co.uk/
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BTW Miles, Monk, Coltrane, Beethoven and Mozart do not have Facebook pages to Like, do they? Elvis?