Results tagged “intelligence” from Birmingham Post - Lifestyle Blog
Sting has clearly read Lolita, as he shoehorned a mention into 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' with one of the worst lyrics of all time. Gordon is a clever man, ex-teacher, lute player, sexual athlete, but is he intelligent enough for Yale or Harvard?
"That book by Nabokov" has been shown to be the favourite book of America's cleverest students, by a study that also ranked Harry Potter books ahead of the Bible, and revealed the work of erotic publishers Zane to be "books that make you dumb".
Books that make you dumb is an exhausting sounding project to compare the favourite books of US colleges with the average SAT scores (around A-Level, er, level) of their students, as such it's not at all scientific but a lot of fun.
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