if you want proof that reading books wont make you smart, just

>>8243330
reading books=/=reading literature

>>8243330
someone would have to be pretty retarded to think there was an actual effect there, and not just a weak correlation.

>>8243330
The people who read YA obsessively are the same people who think that Bill Nye is actually a credible source on science issues and will actually cite his opinions as if they are truth despite the fact that he just has a BA in some engineering field. Stupid people are always going to be stupid so we need to make sure they have some outlet for their stupidity that shunts them away from real literature, real science, basically anything intellectual. Just gives them those little feelings of superiority that keep them going during their daily drudge as a wagecuck.