Software developer Virgil Griffith set out to see if there is a correlation between the type of music people listen to (based on the most "liked" performers on Facebook at more than 1,300 American colleges) and their SAT scores. The study’s been making the rounds, on and off, for the past five years, but it popped up again recently because Griffith posted a new chart. And, as Emma Silvers points out at SF Weekly, the findings aren’t just unscientific; they’re racist.

Let’s see, T.I., Lil Wayne, and the entire history of gospel, hip-hop, and reggae are all the province of morons? Whereas people who listen to Sufjan Stevens, Radiohead, and Guster are the folks you should want in the operating room should you ever need brain surgery? Nope, definitely not a giant, racially loaded can of classist assumptions and privilege-worms to open here. Absolutely no correlation between the dominant ethnic makeup of America’s most exclusive private schools and the fact that apparent hordes of the country’s most promising minds — actual young people, presumably — have listed Counting Crows as one of their favorite bands on Facebook. 

Here’s Griffith’s latest chart: