It's not a scientific survey for sure, but if you reside in the northeast you're more likely to be in the top 10: States Ranked: Smartest to Dumbest The smartest state in the union is Massachusetts. The dumbest, for the second consecutive year, is New Mexico. These are the findings of the Education State Rankings, a survey by Morgan Quitno Press of the public school systems in all 50 states. States were graded on a variety of factors based on how they compare to the national average. These included such positive attributes as per-pupil expenditures, public high school graduation rates, average class size, student reading and math proficiency, and pupil-teacher ratios. States received negative points for high drop-out rates and physical violence. How does YOUR state rank? 1. Massachusetts 2. Vermont 3. Connecticut 4. Montana 5. New Jersey 6. Maine 7. Pennsylvania 8. (tie) Wisconsin and Iowa 10. New York 11. Nebraska 12. Minnesota 13. Indiana 14. Wyoming 15. Kansas 16. Rhode Island 17. Virginia 18. Maryland 19. Delaware 20. Michigan 21. North Carolina 22. Ohio 23. Alaska 24. North Dakota 25. Utah And on the bottom half of the list are: 26. New Hampshire 27. Illinois 28. Missouri 29. West Virginia 30. Idaho 31. South Dakota 32. Oregon 33. Washington 34. Texas 35. Colorado 36. Georgia 37. Kentucky 38. Arkansas 39. Oklahoma 40. Florida 41. South Carolina 42. Tennessee 43. Hawaii 44. California 45. Arizona 46. Alabama 47. Louisiana 48. Mississippi 49. Nevada 50. New Mexico
Number 3 with a bullet, baby. We're clearly smarter than the top two, who exist merely to supply us with decent skiing (VT) and...er....I really can't think of anything Massachusetts does that's so great.
I guess all of us people that are moving to the desert really are dumb. All you easterners should thank all the dumb people that are leaving your state and moving to Arizona and Nevada. Afterall, you have to be pretty damn dumb to move to a place where the average temperature in July 105 degrees.
How did YOUR state vote in 2000? 1. Massachusetts - Gore 2. Vermont - Gore 3. Connecticut - Gore 4. Montana - Bush 5. New Jersey - Gore 6. Maine - Gore 7. Pennsylvania - Gore 8. (tie) Wisconsin - Gore 8. (tie) Iowa - Gore 10. New York - Gore 11. Nebraska - Bush 12. Minnesota - Gore 13. Indiana - Bush 14. Wyoming - Bush 15. Kansas - Bush 16. Rhode Island - Gore 17. Virginia - Bush 18. Maryland - Gore 19. Delaware - Gore 20. Michigan - Gore 21. North Carolina - Bush 22. Ohio - Bush 23. Alaska - Bush 24. North Dakota - Bush 25. Utah - Bush 26. New Hampshire - Bush 27. Illinois - Gore 28. Missouri - Bush 29. West Virginia -Bush 30. Idaho - Bush 31. South Dakota - Bush 32. Oregon - Gore 33. Washington - Gore 34. Texas - Bush 35. Colorado - Bush 36. Georgia - Bush 37. Kentucky - Bush 38. Arkansas - Bush 39. Oklahoma - Bush 40. Florida - Bush 41. South Carolina - Bush 42. Tennessee - Bush 43. Hawaii - Gore 44. California - Gore 45. Arizona - Bush 46. Alabama - Bush 47. Louisiana - Bush 48. Mississippi - Bush 49. Nevada - Bush 50. New Mexico - Gore Mean Gore state ranking: 18.25 Mean Bush state ranking: 30.33 Obviously a vast left-wing conspiracy at work here.
Re: Re: How Smart is Your State? Yeah, they're so smart they couldn't figure out the punch card ballots.
Re: Re: Re: Re: How Smart is Your State? Yeah, but the voters who screwed up the ballot were Democrats. Lord only knows what they did in other states. I gotta give the Dems credit, though, because they figured out a way to get 104% voter turnout in Detroit and 101% voter turnout in Philadelphia.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How Smart is Your State? 1-really now? all the people who had problems were democrats huh? 2-so i guess you've decided to fill the right wing misinformation void left by rush limbaugh?
I grew up in #5, went to college in #7 and now reside in #2. Damn, I've lived my life around a bunch of SMARTYPANTS!! Murf
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How Smart is Your State? Source? But of course you have no source, because we all know that you're somewhere between 101% and 104% full of shit. As always. The last time you posted a verifiable statistic here was likely before you faked your own death for sympathy.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How Smart is Your State? Ian with the autogolazo!!! If only it weren't fake....
None of which has anything to do with intelligence. What this really reflects is the health of a state's education sytem. I guess the publicist thought it would get more attention passing it off as an intelligence ranking.
I suppose NY, NJ & Mass. don't have a lot of illegal aliens/recent legal immigrants. People in the southwest for some strange reason believe they are the only part of the country dealing with immigrants. I didn't come up with the methodology of this study. But if you think your school systems are inferior, this study may confirm your suspicions. That's about the only conclusion I can draw from this.
Re: Re: How Smart is Your State? I agree that a lot of it represented what was being spent on students, rather than the students themselves, but the section you quoted did include "student reading and math proficiency" and ""public high school graduation rates", which I think you'll admit is meant to quantify intelligence levels, not just school spending. Who knows how much the rankings where weighted to favor any particular category.
That's a very nice way of saying that we Californians are spending billion$ educating the children of illegal immigrants, most of whom don't speak English, at the expense of educating our own citizens. Now, to address the question directly, "How Smart Is Your State?" - - - Considering we just recalled a liberal Governor who was running the state into the ground, I would say that our state ranks #1 in the smart category.
Re: Re: How Smart is Your State? Yeah, but Gore came from Tennesse (42) and Bush from Texas (34), so we must conclude that Bush is smarter than Gore.
Re: Re: Re: How Smart is Your State? bush isn't smarter than anybody, the guy can't even speak english FCOL!
> I suppose NY, NJ & Mass. don't have a lot of > illegal aliens/recent legal immigrants. More than 90% of the illegal immigrants in New York are illegal because they overstayed their visas. It isn't the same thing.
But presumably they're still sending their kids to public schools, no? Maybe the Cali immigrants go back & forth to Mexico more often while immigrants here stick around longer. Is anyone surprised that Mississippi isn't dead last? In many studies dealing with education (and other issues like income) they're at the bottom. I think the new state motto is "we're first at being last."