The Least and Most Educated States in the US

regarding high school drop outs - for every year of high school they finish - their propensity to vote democrat drops 15%


so the less high school you have, the more likely you are to be a democrat
 
America is now a deeply corrupt place....credentials do not indicate education....often they indicate the opposite.
 
Taking into account things not taken into account in that list, it isn't so straightforward as it appears.

For example, two of the top 10:

Massachusetts: This small state has one of the highest number of large universities in the US. That isn't something new or recent. The result is that the state has a higher percentage of college graduates not because the state provides better education, but rather because there happens to be a higher concentration of universities there.

Maryland: Another tiny state that is co-located with Dirty City. The high percentage of college graduates is due to that proximity, not because the state has a particularly good education system. If fact, if you discount those who live in Maryland due to employment in Washington DC, the state's education system sucks big time. One of the egregious cases that demonstrates this is a student that graduated public high school there with a 0.13 GPA and was in the top half of his class of 120. The vast majority (depending on who's figures you look at) of students--somewhere between 7 and 9 out of 10--are incompetent in math, illiterate to semi-literate, and had little or no knowledge of anything else.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Taking into account things not taken into account in that list, it isn't so straightforward as it appears.

For example, two of the top 10:

Massachusetts: This small state has one of the highest number of large universities in the US. That isn't something new or recent. The result is that the state has a higher percentage of college graduates not because the state provides better education, but rather because there happens to be a higher concentration of universities there.

Maryland: Another tiny state that is co-located with Dirty City. The high percentage of college graduates is due to that proximity, not because the state has a particularly good education system. If fact, if you discount those who live in Maryland due to employment in Washington DC, the state's education system sucks big time. One of the egregious cases that demonstrates this is a student that graduated public high school there with a 0.13 GPA and was in the top half of his class of 120. The vast majority (depending on who's figures you look at) of students--somewhere between 7 and 9 out of 10--are incompetent in math, illiterate to semi-literate, and had little or no knowledge of anything else.
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It sounds like you are arguing there is a correlation between education and being a Democrat, but that the cause is education, and the effect is being a Democrat.
 
Walt said:
It sounds like you are arguing there is a correlation between education and being a Democrat, but that the cause is education, and the effect is being a Democrat.
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No, but there is a correlation, and a very strong one, between the parent's level of education and income and the children's. That is if the parents are poor and stupid, the kids are likely to be poor and stupid. Conversely for rich and well educated parents. Since Democrats run most of the larger urban areas in the US, and these urban areas produce the greatest number of low income and poorly educated persons, it kind of argues that they are in part responsible for the dumbing of America.
 
Concart said:
I don't believe anyone brought up intelligence until you did. Better educated is better educated. You can draw any conclusion you want. But clearly, the correlation between red/blue and education is not coincidence. There correlation also exists with healthcare.
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Graduating with an advanced degree and being illiterate is not educated.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
thats some seriously stupid shit right there.

i've seen college graduates I wouldn't trust to use the bathroom on their own. Conversely, i've worked alongside high school graduates who control airplanes and airspace, who design, build, and administer networks that most college educated idiots can't understand.

in other words, the correlations you're drawing are of your own idiot fantasies about who you think you are, not what you actually are.
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:thumbsup:
 
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