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2 To make sure he was measuring
intelligence and not something else,
Frederick also correlated CRT scores
with other factors. “An analysis of these
responses shows that CRT scores are
unrelated to preferences between apples
and oranges, Pepsi and Coke, beer and
wine or rap concerts and ballet,” he
writes. “However, CRT scores are
strongly predictive of the choice
between People magazine and The New
Yorker. Among the low CRT group, 67
percent preferred People. Among the
high CRT group, 64 percent preferred
The New Yorker.” (I’m a writer for The
New Yorker, so there was no way I
wasn’t going to mention this, right?)