New England has the United States' smartest people, a survey finds. I suppose it would have been better for the nation if the biggest brains of our time had turned out to be concentrated in the Washington D.C. area. But with Virginia in a merely respectable sixth position and Maryland in the eighteenth slot, we'll have to keep dreaming.
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Bilge.
If the Northeast is so smart, explain
the Big Dig, New York City for the last thirty years, New Jersey politics ( wait- better not)...
Posted by: Martin Owens | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 10:00 PM
Aw, Martin, you're just sore about California coming in at number 47. ;-)
Posted by: Rogier | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 10:51 PM
Hmmm, I have heard it said that every time a Canadian emigrates to the USA that the average intelligence of BOTH countries INCREASES!!!!!! BoooHaaaar...
Posted by: GreginOz | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 10:59 PM
This "survey" wasn't sponsored by a Teacher's Union, was it?
Somehow we're all 'smarter' if we have small class sized and more teachers with higher pay? I small a rat. And it's a big one that only has to work 180 days a year and gets summers off.
Posted by: Paul | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 06:36 PM
You're right to be skeptical, Paul. It's very easy to lie with numbers, or to fail to take possible skew factors into consideration.
The survey in question is "based on 21 elementary and secondary education indicators, ranging from graduation rates and test scores to teacher pay and class size."
Like you, I'm skeptical that teacher pay correlates to pupils' skills or intellectual proficiency. I'm also not sure if there's an iron-clad correlation between spending more money on schools and those schools' performance. I would guess not. The other 19 indicators look pretty solid to me, but I'm not a statistician. See here:
http://www.morganquitno.com/edfact06.htm
Posted by: Rogier | Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 03:36 AM