Fight over this Americans!!

[Basstrap]

U.S. City With the Smartest People Is...

...Minneapolis, Minnesota. That's the word from researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater who studied statistics from five categories and 13 different measures of literacy to provide a ranking for all cities with a population of 250,000 or more. The literacy profile for each city included citizens' educational level, newspaper circulation rates, library resources, number of periodicals published, and the number of booksellers.



The 10 most literate U.S. cities are:
1. Minneapolis, Minnesota
2. Seattle, Washington
3. Denver, Colorado
4. Atlanta, Georgia
5. San Francisco, California
6. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
7. Washington, D.C.
8. Louisville, Kentucky
9. Portland, Oregon
10. Cincinnati, Ohio

 

[IWasBored]

that might explain the large number of interferencers located in that approximate region of the world...

 

[Red Ships of Scalla-Festa]

Louisville, Kentucky

this should help their image.

 

[IWasBored]

maybe a record number of people cut their mullets this year

 

[MrBrau1]

All they read is the Bible.

 

[IWasBored]

when you get a haircut (read haircut to mean mullet-ectomy) and you want to prevent the hair from making a mess all over the floor, if you put a sheet or perhaps newspaper down, it makes for easier cleaning

just in case someone without a sense of humour wanders into this thread: i'm joking.

 

[Diogenes]

7. Washington, D.C.

That explains it.

 

[*BOOMCHAA!*]

we'r thee hell is texas?
we all literate.

 

[IWasBored]

Re: Re: Fight over this Americans!!

That explains it.

 

[Sicy]

5. San Francisco, California

 

[sulawesigirl4]

Where do I live? oh yes that is correct.

Go Minnesota!!!

 

[zonelistener]

Waits for Lilly to make a St. Paul comment

U.S. City With the Smartest People Is...
1. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Yup...

And this should not change next year because I have moved....it is only a temporary move.

 

[Lemon Meringue]

They are the Twin Cities, you know.

 

[ouizy]

stop trying to instigate.




f'ing canadians.

 

[Diogenes]

CANADA RULES

 

[najeena]

With all the rain around Seattle, we have to be literate or we'd end up paralyzed with boredom.

 

[HeartlandGirl]

we'r thee hell is texas?
we all literate.

So's us 'p here in Oklahoma! That list cain't be for true!

 

[beegee]

i'm not surprised we aren't on the list.
mind numbing heat, free flowing liquor, no clocks.
no one even takes our university seriously.

oh well.

*sips drink*

 

[martha]

no one even takes our university seriously.

They will after my baby gets his MFA there!

 

[cujo]

I would just like to say, nice sidetrack to mullet talks.

I think that whole Sausage Swinging incident took old Steeltown down a notch or two.

 

[AvsGirl41]

I do not think Denver should be #3.

 

[U2girl91289]

Is it just me, or is New York not even on that list? What about all the doctors,lawyers and people like that who live in NY? OH yeah, did they count people who go to and/or teach at colleges like, oh, i don't know,Columbia,NYU and Fordham?

 

[AvsGirl41]

New York should be on that list instead of us.

I think we paid someone off.

Many wonderful things come out of NY--name one intelligent thing to come out of Denver.

See?

 

[beegee]

They will after my baby gets his MFA there!

hahaha, that's right!
go martha's man! UNLV represent!

 

[Lilly]

st. paul public schools

Is it just me, or is New York not even on that list? What about all the doctors,lawyers and people like that who live in NY? OH yeah, did they count people who go to and/or teach at colleges like, oh, i don't know,Columbia,NYU and Fordham?

how about macalaster which is in st. paul, or the university of minnesota medical school, the mayo clinic, or william mitchell college of law?

our schools are just as good as new york's, they just may not be as generally known.


and if that seems like a wrong way of putting it, then statistically new york city loses out because for every prominant doctor there is another person who doesn't speak english.

unless the researchers did it per capita, in which case the aforementioned contingency is moot.

 

[IWasBored]

boston univeristy
boston college
brandeis
umass boston



oh wait, i live on the other side of the state carry on

 

[Ali Rose]

BITCH!!!

MINNESOTA RULZ!!!

 

[Salome]

newspaper circulation rates, library resources, number of periodicals published, and the number of booksellers.

this just tells me that those people are too dumb to use the internet

 

[notiti]

Mad props to Sea-town. Yes, we're that literate.

Don't move here. We don't need anymore people

 

[Lilly]

BITCH!!!

MINNESOTA RULZ!!!

how did no city in nebraska not make it?




a mystery no one knows...