Now that's data mining!
Jan. 25th, 2008 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsBooks That Make You Dumb is a data mining exercise in which the writer take "My favorite books" from facebook data and indexes it with "My university," then uses the university as a key to correlate the popularity of a book with the corresponding university's average admissions SAT scores.
The results are fascinating. The "smartest" book, barely edging out the slightly wider spread of 100 Years of Solitude, is the Nabokov favorite, Lolita. The dumbest books? Almost anything by erotica writer "Zane." (Note to self: don't read!) The Bible did not fare well in this analysis, nor did The Color Purple.
The results are fascinating. The "smartest" book, barely edging out the slightly wider spread of 100 Years of Solitude, is the Nabokov favorite, Lolita. The dumbest books? Almost anything by erotica writer "Zane." (Note to self: don't read!) The Bible did not fare well in this analysis, nor did The Color Purple.
