If you listen to rap, odds are you won’t be going to an Ivy League school. Virgil Griffith, inventor of WikiScanner (a database that tracks anonymous edits to Wikipedia in order to humiliate said people), has turned his attention to humiliating the musically-challenged.
Griffith compared students’ Facebook music preferences to their schools’ average SAT score and found that even when adjusted for school size, Rap, R&B, & Hip Hop fans all scored below average. You can find how each genre ranked here: stupidity chart.
Frankly, I was surprised anyone still listened to rap after it was revealed that it can cause seizures (see story) but I guess they’re just too dumb to know any better (zing).
Oh and by the way, “If you listen to rap, odds are you won’t be going to an Ivy League school” is a ridiculously baseless claim. GDP and Das Racist are two of my absolute favorite music artists, and I got a 1500 out of 1600 on my SAT, and I’m a student at Cornell right now. Rap ≠ radio rap. Don’t include Lil Wayne and Ludacris and make a claim about rap itself.
Correlation ≠ Causation. The music doesn’t make you dumb, or smart. And being dumb doesn’t make you like a certain type of music. They are simply correlated, and until you find proof that one causes the other, you can’t say that any kind of music makes you dumb without making yourself look dumb in the process.