Top ten most literate US cities

[Popeye]

Minneapolis (tied for 1st)
Seattle (tied for 1st)
Washington, D.C.
St. Paul, Minn.
San Francisco
Atlanta
Denver
Boston
St. Louis
Cincinnati (tied for 10th)
Portland, Ore. (tied for 10th)

Notice that the GOP stronghold, the south, produces only one city (Atlanta). While progressive cities such as Seattle, Portland and San Francisco all rank highly.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience...ateuscities;_ylt=AguISUOOHNr5zUmbxfuvEoFxieAA

 

[Segep]

Yay Seattle!


And just because a city in the GOP stronghold is considered "literate" it doesn't mean that it's the GOP who makes it literate. It could be all the dissenters.

 

[SW85]

*ahem*

The AMLC study attempts to capture the literacy of major U.S. cities with populations of 250,000 and above, presenting a large-scale portrait of the nation's cultural vitality.

If you had stopped to think, it might've occurred to you that there are comparatively fewer cities of such size in the south than there are compared to the Mid-Atlantic, New England, or Pacific Coast.

If this list is any indication, there are only 20 such cities in the south (I am being charitable by including Florida, Oklahoma, and Kentucky in that count). There are, by contrast, 13 such cities in California alone, which is entirely unrepresented on that list.

There is also, ofc, the relatively nonsensical standard of "literacy" they cobbled together, which the authors themselves acknowledge is plagued with multicollinearity:

Minneapolis and Seattle tied for the top ranking this year, based on local newspaper and magazine circulation, library data, online news readership, book purchases and resources, and educational attainment.

...

Contrary to popular wisdom, Internet use correlates with reading words printed on paper, Miller found. Cities ranked highly for having better-used libraries also have more booksellers; cities with more booksellers also have a higher proportion of people buying books online; and cities with newspapers with high per capita circulation rates also have a high proportion of people reading newspapers online.

But hey, why think?

 

[pocketfullofshells]

Minneapolis (tied for 1st)
Seattle (tied for 1st)
Washington, D.C.
St. Paul, Minn.
San Francisco
Atlanta
Denver
Boston
St. Louis
Cincinnati (tied for 10th)
Portland, Ore. (tied for 10th)

Notice that the GOP stronghold, the south, produces only one city (Atlanta). While progressive cities such as Seattle, Portland and San Francisco all rank highly.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience...ateuscities;_ylt=AguISUOOHNr5zUmbxfuvEoFxieAA

Notice the best and 4th happen to both be in Minnesota...always a good blue state with a independent streak to it

 

[pocketfullofshells]

*ahem*



If you had stopped to think, it might've occurred to you that there are comparatively fewer cities of such size in the south than there are compared to the Mid-Atlantic, New England, or Pacific Coast.

If this list is any indication, there are only 20 such cities in the south (I am being charitable by including Florida, Oklahoma, and Kentucky in that count). There are, by contrast, 13 such cities in California alone, which is entirely unrepresented on that list.

There is also, ofc, the relatively nonsensical standard of "literacy" they cobbled together, which the authors themselves acknowledge is plagued with multicollinearity:



But hey, why think?

maybe the fact all the large cities are in those areas says something....people like to go where they actually spend on education.

 

[samb0rahs]

Interesting. Seems a lot of major cities are missing from that list!

 

[Pidgey]

Interesting. Seems a lot of major cities are missing from that list!

Not that unusual... there can only be 10 in a "Top 10" list...