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.
You must live a cookie cutter neighborhood with freakishly similar homes and chain restaurants with shinny new signage everywhere. It's a great college and 30's something town.
As a former resident of a Flint suburb; you, sir, are as obtuse as they come. Nothing compares to Flint, save Detroit. And pound-for-pound, Flint hold's its own there. There are no areas of Ann Arbor I wouldn't tread down the street at any hour of the day. There are places in Flint I wouldn't drive through in broad daylight.
I just vomitted, hold on.
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Okay, we're good. What?
Sometimes the devil is in the details....
How they did the study was, they set up a roadblock on northbound I-71 up around Westerville, pulled over cars and interviewed the people in them.
And, as you might expect, they found that the people leaving Columbus were some of the most intelligent individuals on the planet.
From the site:
"The rise of the Intelligent Community is a response to one of the greatest economic transformations in history. "Globalization" is the commonly accepted term for it. At the Intelligent Community Forum, we don't feel that the word does justice to the scope of this transformation, and to the way it is reshaping the economic lives of people around the planet. Nor does it explain why this transformation is taking place. Instead, we call it the Broadband Economy – an economy in which for all intents and purposes the hard-working people of Bangalore and Beijing live right next door to the hard-working people of Boston, Brussels and Buenos Aires."
I could be way offbase, but I think part of the broader term "globalization" has in fact been the rise of connectivity through technological means. It almost seems like they are simply redressing the definition of the term "globalization" slightly and perhaps placing emphasis on specific aspects of it.
This page here explains the criteria as well, which include "Knowledge Workforce", "Innovation" and "Digital Inclusion" as well as "Marketing And Advocacy". What I cannot find is why Ann Arbor and several dozen other college towns (at least), among others, would not also have fared well given the definitions of their own criteria. I could be missing something here, but even in the areas of success factors, which they also discuss, there are plenty of communities around the country which could make a good case, I think.
Noped so hard.
Not possible.
DC, NYC,Chi-town and A2 blows them away.
It's the Michigan grads that keep the brains humming in Clumbus.
In the words of Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr (Snoop Dogg),
"Bitch Please."
Over Wisconsin Dells? BULLSHIT.
for accidentally draining the lake...
- Is average household broadband penetration greater than 70% in your community?
- Do 40% or more of your residents have a graduate, undergraduate, community college or technical school degree?
- Is the average student-to-PC ratio in elementary and secondary schools less than 4-to-1 (e.g., 3-to-1)?
- Is there a community college, undergraduate or graduate institution in your community or within commuting distance for residents?
- Does your municipal Web site offer interactive and transactional capabilities?
- Is the Internet - at any speed - available to at least 80% of households in your community?
- Does your community offer free training in digital skills to adults?
- Does your community have a documented strategy for economic & social development involving information and communications technology?
This is like those rankings done by Cooley Law where they're ranked like 6th in the country right? It has to be.
I live in Columbus. There are many other U-M grads here
that must be an unbelievable punishment. At least you are taking their money. But you risk your children becoming Buckeyes.
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Did they factor in the "cooler pooper" variable?