MY city's smarter than YOOOUURRR city....

[BlooInBloo]

Just imagine if I was smart AND motivated - then I'd reformat the mf table! :rofl:

If I was motivated, I'd also look at the proportion of red/blue mayors, representatives, and the like for these areas. Maybe I still will.

http://www.bizjournals.com/specials/pages/12.html

EDIT: GODDAMNSONOFAMOTHERFUCKINGBITCH!!! How do I format this mf table? In "edit" mode it looks just fine - but then all the whitespace is stripped when I save it. And apparently you can't put html tables in here. GRRRRRR! :mad: :mad: :mad:

EDIT2: fuck the table. Here's a snapshot. Sheesh.

[spindrifter]

1. The hilarious thing about Seattle is that

our mayor doesn't have a college degree. He dropped out to go into politics.:shrug:

[Sanity Claws]

3. The prior mayor was a grad of Columbia Law School

[MSgt213]

2. I'm in Houston. What's with all the pretty numbers?

[BlooInBloo]

5. Fixed! Thanks for pointin it out!

[Sanity Claws]

4. The real surprise for me is Albuquerque

Don't get me wrong -- I love New Mexico but I don't think it has an industry that attracts very highly educated people. Seattle has both Microsoft and Boeing.
Maybe you need to be highly educated to spell Albuquerque right and that's why the others weren't counted. How's that for a theory?

[AspenRose]

8. Sandia National Lab; Intel

Kirtland AFB

Lots of brain power there.

(And as far as the rest of NM goes, there's Los Alamos; more PhDs per sq mile than anywhere else in the country)

[Sanity Claws]

11. I knew about Los Alamos

and that there would be a lot of Ph.D.s there. I didn't know about Sandia and Intel being in Albuquerque. (That is one hard city to spell. I feel sorry for the little kids in school.)

[AspenRose]

12. Don't feel bad for the kids....some of them are smart too

Many of them can say the pledge of allegiance in english and spanish :D

[Hugin]

41. Your mistake is thinking Microsoft has any brains...

Money, yes... Brains?

Why do you think all the Zombies are in Albuquerque!

:7

[Hugin]

42. Oh, and as an aside... Billy G. started out in ABQ.

Went back to Washington to be closer to his parents... If memory serves.

[AspenRose]

6. Albuquerque's number 10! Yahoo...

(must be the brain power at Sandia and Intel, though Intel is technically Rio Rancho)

[PWRinNY]

7. College education does not equate brainpower

Just bugs me that they call it brainpower when it's a simple poll of how many are college educated.

[Breeze54]

27. I was thinking the same thing...

http://www.bizjournals.com/specials/pages/11.html

America's brainpower: methodology
bizjournals.com - June 12, 2006

Bizjournals.com has devised a formula to rate the collective brainpower of any U.S. community,
based on the educational attainment of its residents.

Here's how it works:

Categories: Communities have been divided into three categories, depending on the number
of adults who were at least 25 years old as of 2000.

Source: All raw data used in this study were generated by the latest federal census,
which was conducted in 2000 and reported in 2003. The census remains the most recent
and comprehensive source of statistics on educational attainment at the community level.

Scoring: Bizjournals.com has assigned point totals to six levels of educational attainment,
as follows:

* Not a high school graduate (0 points)
* High school graduate (20 points)
* Attended some college, but no degree (40 points)
* Associate degree (60 points)
* Bachelor's degree (80 points)
* Graduate or professional degree (100 points)

--------------

I know a lot of people who have degree's but are dumber than a box of rocks!

Case in point:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

30. Bingo. Poor people don't have brainpower apparently.

Since many aren't offered the opportunity to go to college.

[RagingInMiami]

34. This is an exchange between a friend from NY, who e-mailed me about this:

Friend's e-mail:

ouch:

The study found that Miami has the lowest brainpower of any large community. Just 16 percent of Miami's adults have earned bachelor's degrees, which is 31 percentage points behind Seattle's rate.

My response:

Well, I think it is a cheapshot to say we have low "brainpower" when they are clearly referring to education. We've all met ignorant idiots with college degrees as well as highly intelligent people with no education.

Miami is a poor city where more than 50 percent of its residents are immigrants who came here to improve their lives. Most have to work several jobs and don't exactly have time or money to pursue a higher education.

In other studies I've seen, Miami has the highest rate of Hispanics with colllege degrees or something to that effect. Maybe it was the highest rate of children of immigrants enrolled in college.

Also, Miami-Dade College, a four-year college that used to be a two-year community college called Miami-Dade Community College (where I got my associate degree), has the largest student enrollment in the country, I recently read.

Having said all that, you would think that a guy like me with a bachelor degree and fluent in two languages would have a much easier time getting job assignments if I'm part of the educated 16 percent.

The other problem down here is our public education system sucks. It really does not prepare anyone for college. Nor does it motivate students to pursue higher education. It was bad when I was in school and it's even worse now. And for that, I blame Jeb.

Friend's resopnse:

right on! you might want to forward your excellent letter to those putos who commissioned the 'study.'

[LisaM]

9. Plus Seattle is full of transplants. I live here

but I didn't get my college degree here, and most of the people I know didn't either.

[BlooInBloo]

14. True, but there are also a lot that are FROM here, get their degree...

... elsewhere, then RETURN to Seattle...

There's all types....

Do you think that most people with degrees in S.F. actually GOT their degrees in S.F.? That would shock the hell outta me... Just sayin - I don't think the phenomenon you point out is by a far stretch unique to Seattle.

[LisaM]

19. I meant in Washington, not Seattle proper

I would venture to guess that a higher percentage of people who live in San Francisco were educated in California than people in Seattle were in Washington. Of course, Washington doesn't seem to be very full of colleges; California has LOTS. I'm originally from Michigan, which also has a lot of schools. Don't get me wrong - I like it that Seattle is educated; that's why it's liberal and why I can belong to two functioning book clubs.

[BlooInBloo]

20. **TWO** books at ONCE!!! That CRAZYTALK woman!

What did you do to deserve such a punishment from hell?

(just thought I'd report how the bulk of the country looks at your proclivities)

:rofl:
:rofl:
:rofl:

[LisaM]

37. If you saw the books we're readin g this month, you'd think it WAS crazy

I have really got to speak to people about choosing these snoozers and losers.

[Igel]

10. I actually find the numbers scary.

I don't know if I quite trust the 'no HS degree' numbers. They're the scary ones.

[Burma Jones]

13. My County, with nearly one million folks would be #2

Bachelor's degree or higher, pct of persons age 25+, 2000 54.6%

and over 27% have advanced or Professional Degrees.....

And we're diverse

RACE
One race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843,224 96.6
White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565,719 64.8
Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,256 15.1
American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . 2,544 0.3
Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,651 11.3
Asian Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,626 2.7
Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,590 3.3
Filipino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,393 0.8
Japanese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,168 0.4
Korean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,130 1.7
Vietnamese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,907 1.1
Other Asian 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,837 1.2
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . 412 -
Native Hawaiian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 -
Guamanian or Chamorro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 -
Samoan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 -
Other Pacific Islander 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 -
Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,642 5.0
Two or more races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,117 3.4
Race alone or in combination with one
or more other races: 3
White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587,681 67.3
Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,507 16.3
American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,639 0.8
Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,785 12.3
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . . . 1,492 0.2
Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,421 6.8


HISPANIC OR LATINO AND RACE
Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873,341 100.0
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,604 11.5
Mexican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,917 1.0
Puerto Rican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,319 0.6
Cuban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,739 0.3
Other Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,629 9.6
Not Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772,737 88.5
White alone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519,318 59.5



Montgomery County, MD

[LiberalEsto]

15. That's my county too!

Derwood, MD

[Burma Jones]

24. I used to live in Derwood, went to Redland and Magruder

[LiberalEsto]

44. Small world.!

My kids went to Redland and Magruder.
Magruder classes of 2001 and 2004
We live in Mill Creek Towne.

Matcom grew up in Derwood too - near Candlewood E.S.

[BlooInBloo]

16. Wow - that's pretty high-res tracking of race! LOL

I didn't realize people cared THAT much...

[Catshrink]

17. The armpit* of the Valley of the Dumb** is #25.

Phoenix itself is #36. I'm surprised that Mesa is this high.


* Mesa, AZ
**Phoenix Metro

[Gato Moteado]

18. austin was number 1 until last year....but then i moved out....

....and the average intelligence dropped significantly.

sorry austin.

now i'm in costa rica where the literacy rate is over 95%. it must have been my arrival!

[Warpy]

21. Some of the dumbest people on the planet

got a 4 year degree in something or other and haven't read anything weightier than People Magazine since the diploma got handed to them.

We call them "Republicans."

[Clark2008]

22. Noticed: An awful lot of blue cities within red states in this

top 50 list: Charlotte, Austin, Nashville, Albuquerque, Atlanta, New Orleans. Memphis and Miami.

I'm not sure about Charlotte, Miami and Albuquerque, but I'm certain Austin, Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans and Atlanta are "blue" cities in red states.

Interesting stat if one cares to run with it.

[BlooInBloo]

23. I'd dig following up on that... got 3 job interviews in the next 2 days...

... gotta prepare for 'em....

[Clark2008]

25. Well, if anything, it proves that not everyone in the South

is a card-carrying member of Dumbfuckistan.

:rofl:

[BlooInBloo]

26. Nope - the big and/or coastal cities usually have their share...

... of smart folks....


EDIT: My "nope" was intended to express *agreement* with what you said. :)

[nealmhughes]

29. We done got us a bunch of sushi-eatin' fancy book larnin' lieberuls

in Nashville and Huntsville. They done put a man on the moon and everythang. I hear tell they sell that there French wine and German beer, too. They got Democrats running their counties and as their Representatives. Real Americans weep.

[nealmhughes]

28. yes, those are all democratic cities/areas

I am sure of all of them.

[Sanity Claws]

31. High school dropouts

The percentage is shocking. If it's this high in the well-educated places, it must be even higher in other areas. Something is seriously wrong.

[stevedeshazer]

32. Northwest snob...

We're Number Nine!
We're Number Nine!
We're Number Nine!

:grr: :hi:

Eight of ten cities are west of the Mississippi....

[Arugula Latte]

33. Yeah, me to, I'm number, um, wait ...

*counts on fingers* ... nine! :woohoo:

West Coast kickin' some big booty on the brain thing!

[Skittles]

35. education has nothing to do with intelligence

bush proves that

[Marie26]

36. Go Charlotte!!

City of nerds. :P

[SeattleRob]

38. Not surprised!!!

I would be curious to see how this all correlates to quality of life.

I will vouch that Seattle is a great place to live.

[underpants]

39. The seem to lean to the left

BTW_ Va. Beach is #11???? Wow that is amazing.

[ceile]

40. Go Austin! n/t

[mopinko]

43. bullshit! chicago is sooo smart

they ought to be counting things like universities and teaching hospitals. we put all these cities to shame by that measure. and half these cities are not even big cities. wtf.

[Touchdown]

45. Co. Springs is bullshit.

Divinity School, and teaching men to show their sons penises in the shower is not a real education. :eyes:

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