Books that make you dumb

Five books to make you less stupid about the civil war 29th regiment connecticut volunteers, u. This is really a dumb book, but i have been enjoying it. Trumps chief economic adviser gary cohn describes trump as dumb. Several commenters on that post mentioned specific titles, so we got to wondering. Its full of dumb jokes and dumb stories that make me laugh and the truth is i do so many dumb things i was kind of getting a little embarrassed at first because i began to think the book was about me, but after a while i realized that no one could make that many dumb mistakes so i figured it had to b e about a lot of us. Wikiscanner hacker virgil griffth told me a while ago about his latest data mining project, to visualise the relationship between books and sat scores. It turns out that eating dumb diminishes all of your efforts to be smart. Today he released his findings at booksthatmakeyoudumb. A 25yearold caltech graduate student has developed a tongueincheek statistical look at taste and intelligence. Scifi and fantasy books that make you dumb techrepublic. These guys looked at the most popular books at every college according to facebook, and the average sat score. These ten books are indicative of the overall intellectual milieu of that college.

What do you call a man with no arms or legs wading in a pool. Stock your book list and sign up for our bookish newsletter so you are always in the know about the books that make you, you. Virgil griffith analyzed the top 10 books listed on facebook by students in a college versus the average sat scores for the school and the results are hilarious. Without any sugarcoating, author richard woods confronts societal normalcy, political correctness, and perceived morality in a blistering attack on todays american culture. Of course its not at the top, but seeing the literature so bad and i dont even mean the social message, its just really poorly written so close to the top was bizzare. If you cant find time to read, the best way is to listen to audiobooks while commuting, working out or cooking. Scifi and fantasy books that make you dumb by jay garmon in geekend, in after hours on january 30, 2008, 8. Plot the average sat of each book, discarding books. Posts about books that make you dumb written by natehill. As a blogger on the perils of feeling dumb while reading bravely cites neil gaimans american gods. You could read any number of books, for reasons ranging from guilty pleasure to the fact that your book club meets in two days.

How can you know for sure that they are not telling you the truth. Books that make you is a place for bibliophiles and those who love to read. He does this by cross referencing the 10 most popular books at every college, as given by facebook, and the average mark frauenfelder 11. Reading compels you to look up the meaning of the words you ve just read, hence as you go further along, the more the sentences make sense to you than before you began reading them. Treasury secretary steve mnuchin and former chief of staff reince priebus both refer to him as an idiot. Get a friend of yours to download, using facebook, the ten most popular books at every college manually as not to violate facebooks tos. Five books to make you less stupid about the civil war. These same categories apply to your choice of what to read next. In this hot mess of a book thats supposed to make it difficult for you to find anything, someone managed to pick out an errant side boob in the beach scene of the 1987 version. Its a phenomenon every reader has experienced at some pointmaybe you read something everyone else loves and you just dont see the appeal. Just visiting by dahlia adler, my life next door by huntley fitzpatrick, paper towns by john green, looking for alaska by jo. Everybody knows that reading books is for loners and nerds. He does this by cross referencing the 10 most popular books at every college, as given by facebook, and the average sat score.

Nates thoughts on libraries, space, technology, design and everything in between. And then there are some that are too dumb, they are actually hilarious and make you laugh out loud. Silly stories, stupid people, and mega mistakes that crack. Of course, none of these books make you dumb or smart. You should probably read any number of classic novels that will expand your literary palate or teach you a thing or. It exposes you to and lets you uncover the context of the words that you ve probably never heard of before. Booksthatmakeyoudumb is a small site by virgil griffith that tries to look at the relationship between favorite books of students at colleges and. The fact that atlas shrugged is towards the top of the list confirms it. Its true that researchers at prestigious universities, such as ucla and oxford university, have found that there are certain foods that make you less smart. Colored troops in formation near beaufort, south carolina, 1864 library of congress. In life, there are things you could do, things you should do, and things you must do. Here is an insipid little chart published by a caltech student that purports to correlate sat scores with favorite books, effectively determining. Apparently theres just no accounting for dumbitude.

The findings of a very important study by dataminerwikiscanner creator virgil griffith, books that make you dumb, tell us exactly which books will impair your intelligence. Well tally the totals and come back with results in a few weeks. Rioter swapna struck a nerve last month when she wrote about the. Books that make you dumb not really january 26, 2008 topic ugly charts. See more cute, hilarious, funny pics, gifs, videos on funnyworm.

If you cannot bear the thought of being called stupid or dumb then please leave. The students in the schools with average sat scores of 800950 loved the holy bible and erotic titles like zane. Because life can make you stupid is a kick in the groin to the selfhelp industry. Behaviors that make you seem stupid psychology today. Virgil griffith has created a series of graphs called books that make you dumb. But have you ever thought about foods that make you dumber. The top 17 books that make you feel dumb rebecca joines schinsky may 21, 2014 rioter swapna struck a nerve last month when she wrote about the perils of feeling dumb while reading, and we decided to find out which titles really left you scratching your head. Rioter swapna struck a nerve last week when she wrote about the perils of feeling dumb while reading. Even assuming you receive a cranial trauma serious enough to make shakespeare as portrayed by pruneheaded aliens seem like a good idea, why would you ever pick the goddamn romantic comedy.

The following, scientifically derived questions attempt to dig deep into your knowledge and personality to determine if you are stupid. So lolita is popular at schools when an average sat score over 0, while the color purple is popular down at the 850 range. Because, per usual, womens bodieseven the cartoon onesruin everything and start wars and stuff. The more of them you take, the more you leave behind. The music ended a little early and she knew that she reached the ends so she lost balance and fell to her death. But bradburys book is a classic work of fiction, never mind the genre. Of all the bards works, this is the one that benefits least from a warrior culture and a language that sounds like you re choking on a furball. Lots of required reading on this list i notice the books that make you smart lean more toward recently popular books still reading better at it i think that list is more interesting.

Wikiscanner hacker virgil griffth told me a while ago about his latest data mining project, to visualise the relationship between books and sat. He correlates top books on facebook by school and the corresponding schools average sat scores. If it doesnt make you laugh, you are just too perfect and should get counseling. Anyone who has ever sought to justify their own musical or literary taste may find some solace in the side project of virgil griffith, a 25yearold caltech graduate student known for embarrassing numerous corporations with his wikiscanner, a database that. But has anybody actually scientifically documented this information. Books that make you dumb college students favorite. As a blogger on the perils of feeling dumb while reading bravely cites neil gaimans american gods, perhaps its time for us all to own up to the books. Here are my top 20 books that will change your life. If you ve never read any moore, and you re looking for a book that will make you both laugh and think, i highly recommend lamb. The woman is a blindfolded tightrope walker at a circus. The top 17 books that make you feel dumb book riot. With amazons audible you get 2 audiobooks for free. Books that make you dumb, or books that smart people read. That is the question answered by this little gem of a book.