Books that make you dumber (and smarter) ;)


	Books that make you dumber (and smarter) ;)

quickstar

2-9-2008 12:09 AM

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books, sat, facebook, humor

quickstar says:

This is an amusing breakdown of the books people read and their presumed SAT scores. This is NOT hard science, but it is good for a laugh!

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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Get a friend of yours to download, using Facebook, the ten most frequent "favorite books" at every college</LI></OL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">These ten books are indicative of the overall intellectual milieu of that college.</LI>
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