Could the books be making you dumb?

September 1, 2008 What to Read, links 2 Comments

Could there be an association between books you read and your intelligence. Virgil Griffith has tested the theory by comparing favourite books listed on Facebook with average SAT scores. This is a fun list, but obviously a bit pseudoscience.

But if we suspend belief for a little bit, to become smarter, we should be reading Lolita, 100 years of solitude, Freakonomics and Crime and Punishment. And it would be better to avoid Zane, The Color Purple, Fahrenheit 451 and even the Bible.