OT - Columbus, OH Named Most Intelligent City in America
According to the ICF, which I cannot expound upon much.
Article states that if one is feeling "brainy", it's because one is part of the smartest workforce in the states. Probably...not.
It also references the "abundance" of technical schools. Schools of trade. Schools of...thought? Schools of, trucks.
PROOF:
http://www.nbc4i.com/story/21859068/columbus-named-most-intelligent-city-in-america
Please, someone, explain.
Can't. There is just NO explanation for utter nonsense.
"Follow me, follow me to freedom!"
I feel like I too bring up that average a bit. People knock Columbus, but it's actually a pretty good city.
Columbus Toaster Repair School must help increase the average IQ in Columbus.
An April Fool's joke, no doubt.
Lies
Nice try ICF, April Fool's day was 2 days ago
It makes it an even better April Fools joke if people still believe it.
More like ICP, AMIRITE?
If you are feeling brainy it could be because you are part of the smartest workforce in America. The Intelligent Communities Forum has named Columbus in the top seven most intelligent cities in the world, and it is the only American city to make the cut.
Bell said that more than 400 cities around the world vie for the intelligence designation.
400 cities
The cities have to VIE for inclusion. Truly intelligent cities wouldn't care.
because it ISN'T opposite day.............
I see it.
I call bullshit.
bullshit.
"Is what's taught in your universities and your technical schools informed by the needs of business?"
haha that's a joke criteria
Exactly, which is why I can offer no elaboration on either the ICF or other cities involved. Funny how I only found it on NBC4's Columbus site.
I had two goals in mind:
1.) Expose the ICF.
2.) Receive 100 Thread Downvotes.
Columbus Named Most Intelligent Indigent City In America
Keep in mind that those are big words for nbc4i.com of Columbus.
Current local news around Columbus per the website.
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Local News
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H.S. Teacher Accused Of Improper Relations With 2 Students
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Police Helicopters Grounded Due To Gaps In Records
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Local Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty To Filing 79 False Claims For Tax Refunds
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Jeffersonville Business Owner Ordered To Pay In Fraud Case
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Groups Pushing For Background Checks For Gun Purchases
To be perfectly fair, several of those headlines pertain to locations not in Columbus or even Franklin County. Still... yeah.
Nah, Teddy K. was a brilliant, albeit slightly eccentric dude while at Michigan. He didn't turn crazy until he left to go teach at Berkeley.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Exactly what formula did they use? Columbus is not a college town, not a tech town, not a center of culture, not in a desirable state, etc. Perhaps there was a minimum population? Even still, what about Palo Alto, San Fran, Boston (college population), etc?
~Herm
Palo Alto ? Maybe they did not feel the need to call attention to themselves.
Is that a front for the Bleacher Report? I believe it's been scientifically shown (using math and everything) that if a citizen of Columbus moves to AA, the average IQ for both cities goes down.
But I am friends with Jody Shelley who now plays with Philadelphia (if you could call it plays) and has lived in many places across the USA (Cali., New York, Ohio, Florida, also clagary in Canada) and he loves Columbus. He still maintains his residence there and when speaking to him last summer he had nothing but good things to say about it. My brother has also been a couple of times to various medical conferences in Columbus and agreed with Jody that it is a very nice city.
Again, I have never been there but it seems from my experience that anyone who has been there that doesn't have a rooting interest in UM seems to speak very highly of the city. It seems sad to me (and yet not unexpected given what I know about many fans) that people would paint an entire city with the same brush that they paint a rival schools sports team. Oh well...I'm sure Columbus doesn't give much thought to what UM fans think about their city.
California is doing MUCH better than Michigan. The Bay Area is doing very well, though the central valley not so much. It's a very big state in both area and population, and it all depends where one lives. The economy is fairly diverse and not dependent on a single industry like Michigan. Although Columbus may be doing well it is probably the only place in Ohio that is.
If you hear the sound of thunder, it's just Ufe and Bo reacting to the news up in Football Valhalla.
Who the fuck has ever heard of the ICF before ? Seriously ... anybody ? Obvious "think-tank" organization that is no doubt bilking millions of dollars from somebody ... the gov't maybe (oops I mean We the People !)
Go Blue!
This reminds me a little of a "Best Places to Retire" survey from 20 or so years ago. The winner? Pittsburgh.
I've got nothing against Pittsburgh, but it all depends on the evaluation criteria and the weighting that's used.
I went to the "Intelligent Community Forum" website and did a little browsing around. Here's an interesting bit of discovery -- Columbus, #1 in the world (not just U.S.) in 2013, was not even in their top 7 the prior year. Nobody moves a city that far that fast.
Cleveland, OH was #1 in 2006 ... then disappeared ever after.
From their website: "Intelligent Communities are those which have – whether through crisis or foresight – come to understand the enormous challenges of the Broadband Economy, and have taken conscious steps to create an economy capable of prospering in it."
Broadband. I haven't heard that word used with any reverence since ... um ... the 1990's.
Ah yes, I'm sure places like Palo Alto or Cupertino, awash in not only Stanford folk but also the employees of about six million high tech companies just pales beside the brain trust that is Columbus. Ann Arbor got a most educated award awhile back and I was a bit confused in that while Michigan is of course a great school, we don't have that much industry that actually retains the talent. Whereas other cities not only produce it domestically via a school, but also have multiple Fortune 500 companies recruiting talent in from other areas.
....foooor???? Squirrels?
....foooor???? Shitty people to earn employment?
....foooor???? Someone to hate?
I'm sure Columbus is the most intelligent city for a lot of things. Good for them.
is the equivalent of the Who's Who of High School Students for cities.
Great jorb, Columbus.
I know you're saying something, but honestly it just sounds like this.