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Average SAT scores as a function of people's favorite books. Thought you guys might find this interesting.

>> No.2733683

By claimed favorite book. Since it's by what people say on facebook, isn't it?

>> No.2733689

>listing lolita as erotica

0/10

>> No.2733692

What the fuck is the difference between "The Bible" and "The Holy Bible?"

>> No.2733696

My 1310 was 9 years ago. My favorite novel at the time was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I didn't get into literature until college. The Sun Also Rises is my favorite novel now. Isn't the SAT out of like 2300 now though?

>> No.2733699

>>2733696

yes but I still think that everyone disregards the new writing section

>> No.2733714

>>2733699
Makes sense. I think most of the people I knew who were 1450+ didn't even read fiction. Most are engineers now.

>> No.2733723

i like twilight why isnt it there

>> No.2733755

C&P master-race reporting

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2733759

>mfw all those sociopathic Objectivists scoring high on the SATs
We'll have that underwater Utopia yet.

>> No.2733772

>>2733759
It's exactly the sort of thing that would appeal to a smug high achieving teenager. Then they grow up, and read something that isn't utter shit.

>> No.2733777

lolita and a 1350.

da fuq.

>> No.2733784

What if you don't like any of these shit books?

>> No.2733787

>>2733777
Humbert x2 was a smart man, wasn't he? Just batshit, especially towards the end there.

>> No.2733806

>>2733787
>>2733777

1350 isn't even that crazy. At least 1 in 20 people are still better than you at SATing. And these are HS juniors/seniors we're talking about. They could do a lot worse than Lolita.

>> No.2733809

>>2733787
i'd have shot quilty too, bra.

come at me.

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2733814

>graph showing proto-pedophiles, sociopaths, spergs/autists, existential depressives and moral relativists scoring higher on standardized tests
Whelp.

>> No.2733833

>>2733772
>>2733759
Why are Rand fans so hated on? I think the book is a bit of solace and perspective for genuinely intelligent kids who are forced into a mediocre environment like public school.

I read Lolita in high school and liked it quite a bit- I still haven't managed to finish Atlas Shrug but I did hop on the Ron Paul train my senior year of high school. Don't remember my score but was in the 90th percentile.

>> No.2733837

>>2733833
If I could hazard a guess, there's an associated self satisfaction and smug pretentiousness associated with the novel and teens; there's something infuriating about relative idiots considering themselves to be exceptional.

(I think this is mildly rooted in insecurity, which is eminently natural and perhaps even troublesome were it to be wholly absent [i.e.: I'm not criticizing it].)

>> No.2733840

I got a 1700, what does this say about me?

>> No.2733843

I'm Canadian, and my favourite book is In Search of Lost Time. I assume I'd score roundabouts 3100.

>> No.2733845

I read good books and I'm so smarttt

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2733849

Lolita is not erotica. What the fuck.

>> No.2733850

>>2733845
I can count to potato, can you?

>> No.2733855

>>2733840
For the new SAT, that's a bit above average. like 60th percentile

>> No.2733857

Where's Gravity's Rainbow?

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>>2733857
>Pynchon
>high-school reading

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2733977

>African-American Lit
>lowest score on average
Dass raciss!

>> No.2733989

>>2733977
Not really. African Americans are more likely to list African American Lit as their favorites. They also tend to have a lower socio-economic status, and those who have less money tend to live in areas with less money to spend on educating children. When you then hand students from every school the same test, those with a lower quality education are unlikely to do as well.

Now, I hide the thread before the imminent shitstorm.

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2733998

>>2733989
But I likes shitstorm...

>> No.2733994

Hmm, I can't really remember what my favorite book was when I graduated from high school. I would guess it was probably Slaughterhouse-Five. Hard to really say though, based on what I remember having read at that time. However, my SAT was a 1560. So I guess we can bump Vonnegut's average a bit.

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>>2733994
You can't hear, but I'm clapping for you.

>> No.2734041

>>2733989
Money does not make people smarter in a lasting way. There is no lasting effect of SES on IQ scores.

Blacks have lower SES becus they are less smart on average.

"The culture-only (0% genetic–100% environmental) and the hereditarian (50%
genetic–50% environmental) models of the causes of mean Black–White differences
in cognitive ability are compared and contrasted across 10 categories of evidence:
the worldwide distribution of test scores, g factor of mental ability, heritability, brain
size and cognitive ability, transracial adoption, racial admixture, regression, related
life-history traits, human origins research, and hypothesized environmental vari-
ables. The new evidence reviewed here points to some genetic component in
Black–White differences in mean IQ. The implication for public policy is that the
discrimination model (i.e., Black–White differences in socially valued outcomes
will be equal barring discrimination) must be tempered by a distributional model
(i.e., Black–White outcomes reflect underlying group characteristics)."

"Despite repeated claims to the contrary, there has been no narrowing of the 15- to
18-point average IQ difference between Blacks and Whites (1.1 standard devia-
tions); the differences are as large today as they were when first measured nearly
100 years ago. They, and the concomitant difference in standard of living, level of
education, and related phenomena, lie in factors that are largely heritable, not
cultural. The IQ differences are attributable to differences in brain size more than to
racism, stereotype threat, item selection on tests, and all the other suggestions given
by the commentators. It is time to meet reality. It is time to stop committing the
“moralistic fallacy” that good science must conform to approved outcomes."

It is time to meet reality.

>> No.2734047

>Animal Farm
>favorite book

Jesus, I hate those kids. "LOL yah i read aminal farm in class nd it was fukken deep man. it showed how communism didn't work nd shit lol. i liked it on facebook so bitches know how deep I am."

>> No.2734049

rofl. 1460 and the great gatsby. the great gatsby is the greatest novel written in english in the last 100 years

>> No.2734050

>>2734049
Lolita would like to have a word with you.

>> No.2734054

>>2734050
LOL

>> No.2734058

>>2734041

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/?tool=pmcentrez

Enjoy your pseudoscience fuckwad

>> No.2734065

>>2734041

What segment of the black population was studied?

Who were the control group?

What standards were used?

Is there any evidence of observer bias?

Until you can answer any of these questions, you're peddling bullshit masquerading as science. Science is carried out by fallible human beings bro, and that leads to fallible practices.

>> No.2734069

>Freakonomics
>favorite book
made me lol.

>> No.2734072

>>2733679

Without sample size this is meaningless...

I scored in the 1300s and was into vonnegut, irving, and heller at that age though...

>> No.2734094

>tfw the SAT and standardized tests have no merit
>tfw I got a 1470 and I didn't regularly read at that time
>tfw even the 'writing' component is 90% multiple choice questions

they make you write an essay but its like 10 out of the 70 points if i remember correctly

fuck standardized tests

>> No.2734097

So pretty much, high school kids are morons and the SAT doesn't mean anything. Awesome!

>> No.2734105

>>2734097

It is meant to correlate to freshmen university performance...it doesn't

IQ and GRE are also based on bad science

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>>2734105
>IQ and GRE are also based on bad science

>> No.2734124

I've not had a chance to read either Lolita or 100 Years of Solitude.
Mayhaps I'll read them soon.

>> No.2734127

>The Bible
>The Holy Bible
Reminds me of the time when game devs used to add "Super" to the title of their sequels
>The Bible
>The Super Bible

>> No.2734130

>>2734117

Read Gould's discussion of g in IQ metrics

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/topics/curveball.html

>> No.2734132

>>2734127

Is it like Superjail is to normal jail?

>> No.2734134

What is this pleb shit? SAT goes to 1600, why cut off at 1400?

Anyway, I got 1480 and my favorite book is Brothers Karamazov.

>> No.2734135

>>2734117
he's getting raped in prison now

>> No.2734137

>>2734132
Well I cannot tell you about the books, although I am laughing my ass off at the idea of the Bible being named by Capcom:
>Super Holy Bible x Koran II: Clash of Religions: Illustrated Edition

>> No.2734152

>Mason & Dixon
>1530

Feels good man.

>> No.2734178

I didn't take the SATs. What does that say about me?

>> No.2734179

>>2734178
It says that you're either underage or you've seen through the bullshit that is college.

>> No.2734181

>>2734179

I'm 22. I dropped out of junior college. I'm not sure if I want to go back.

>> No.2734191

lolita?

0/10

>> No.2734194

>>2734181
It's too late. Enjoy the coal mine.

>> No.2734201

>>2734194

Nope, I could always go back and get a degree.

The question is: is it worth it? Or should I just try to finish my novel and become a starving artist?

>> No.2734206

>>2734201
Off yourself. Save us the welfare payments. At least some of those people actually tried.

>> No.2734215

>>2734206

Some of what people? Whose saying I'm not trying? What are you getting at, exactly?

>> No.2734250

>>2734206

>Atlas Shrugged

>> No.2734252

>>2734215
We're just fucking with you. Stop being so serious, fwend.

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>>2734252

>mfw I can never tell.

>> No.2734287

>>2733814
It seems pretty obvious why they're on the top, a normal clever person would only make money, live in peace or studying everything interesting, being an artist isn't really what clever people need.

Now you just realize to haven't a good imagination.

>> No.2734293

Im Andrea' ad live in michigan and im only 13 i play guitar and have a band we play heavy metal and call ourselves Bloody Massacre i play lead and im the one in the back screaming....
we also play screamo which is almost the same thing i enjoy wearing tutu's lmao only for fun and hanging out with freinds and i skateboard ALOT!

>> No.2734375

>tfw not murrikan
>tfw Lolita's my favourite book
>tfw I did really well at school in the UK (4 As)

The chart seems 100 % accurate and transferable to all other countries.