Via
Marginal Revolution, I found
books that make you dumb, a website using Facebook to correlate a college's most popular books with its average SAT/ACT scores. It's clear from the
methodology that there are quite a few problems with this, including but not limited to correlation vs. causation. But it's a fun list anyway.
-
Lolita
,
100 Years of Solitude
and
Atlas Shrugged
are some of my favorite books that are linked to high SAT scores.
Ender's Game
,
The Lord of the Rings
and the
Harry Potter
books are in the high-ish middle area.
-"The Holy Bible" is linked to low scores, while "The Bible" and the Book of Mormon fall squarely in the middle.
-Most surprising low-score correlation:
Fahrenheit 451
.
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