Scientific proof: People who listen to Kanye are smarter than Jay-Z fans

A 25 year old student named Virgil Griffith recently did a study of SAT scores, and compared them to the bands people listen to to find out whether the music you like influences how smart you are (or vice versa).

Virgil used Facebook to find out the favourite bands / artists of students from various US colleges, and then plotted them against the average SAT scores at those schools.

According to the study, smart kids listen to Sufjan Stevens, Counting Crows, Radiohead and U2. But if you listen to Lil Wayne, Beyonce or T.I it's likely that you're not going to do so well on your end of year exams (And, for some reason, people who listen to Kanye are smarter than Jay-Z fans!)

Pitchfork make the point that the chart actually points out how "Eurocentric the SATs are, with the whole chart practically cleaved in half between black and white artists", and also notes that quite often people try to out-obscure each other when listing their interests on a social network site - and an artist like Sufjan quite nicely crosses the border between mainstream and obscurity.