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March 04, 2008, 12:02 PM ET
A Page-Turning Mash-Up
It’s hardly scientific but certainly interesting: A Web site that correlates colleges’ average SAT scores with college students’ “favorite book” preferences on Facebook.
To come up with Booksthatmakeyoudumb, Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, visited Facebook and determined the 100 most-mentioned “favorite books” at colleges. Then he put the data together with the average combined SAT scores of students at those colleges.
The Five Highest-Scoring Books (and Average SAT)
1. Lolita (1317) 2. 100 Years of Solitude (1308) 3. Crime and Punishment (1307) 4. Freakonomics (1275) 5. Catch-22 (1233)
Ranking 87th: “I Don’t Read” (968). That’s not a book title, folks.
Mr. Griffith has released Musicthatmakesyoudumb as well.
He also developed WikiScanner, where users can track edits to Wikipedia entries back to the IP address of the editor. —Hurley Goodall
Categories: Social-Networking, Student-Life
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