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Listening to Sufjan Stevens Makes Kids Smarter... Posted by on 23/04/09 in blog
Well, maybe. Basically, a Californian computer graduate named Virgil Griffith has studied the relationship between bands and the SAT scores of those listening to them. He found that the smartest students listened to Beethoven, closely followed by Sufjan (average SAT of 1371) and the students who rung in at the bottom of the SAT scores listened to Lil’ Wayne (average SAT of 889).
But of course there is the causality of it all to consider, are the smart kids naturally attracted and stimulated by the complexity of Beethoven and Sufjan’s compositions or are these artists themselves somehow part of the enrichment process? Here’s the chart for you all to figure out if your listening habits make you smart to figure it out…
