Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Books That Make You Dumb
Virgil Griffith of Cal Tech mined Facebook's list of favorite books at various colleges and mapped them to their average SAT scores. The result is Booksthatmakeyoudumb. He's graphed the data a few ways, my favorite is this one.
Interesting graph. I note that smarter people say they read "The Bible" while those who scored lower read "The Holy Bible." Perhaps smarter people realize that everyone will recognize the shorter title?
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Interesting graph. I note that smarter people say they read "The Bible" while those who scored lower read "The Holy Bible." Perhaps smarter people realize that everyone will recognize the shorter title?
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