WalletHub: Ann Arbor is Most Educated City in America
Tell me something I don't know. A new survey by Wallet Hub ranks Ann Arbor as the Most Educated City in America.
https://wallethub.com/edu/most-and-least-educated-cities/6656/
List seems skewed based on some of the classifications. Comparing DC/the entire DC metro area/West Virginia to just Ann Arbor seems ridiculous.
True.
Ann Arbor is sometimes on the wrong end of ridiculous comparisons, such as when someone in NYC compares it to "the Midwest" (which includes places like Ann Arbor but not Rochester / Syracuse). In other words, they make a city-to-region comparison.
Without traffic, I was able to make it from my home on the DC/MD border to Harpers Ferry in a little over an hour. I think it's still an extreme stretch to lump it in with DC. If that's the case, Detroit, Ann Arbor and Lansing could be lumped together.
Yes, noticed that also and found curious.
What I also found interesting is 2 SEC state areas (Atlanta #24 and Huntsville, AL #27) before anywhere O H I O (Columbus, OH #36)
Tallahassee, FL was #11, but as it's home to ACC school, and Austin, TX #9 is UofT, I didn't include. (Also, seems to be higher concentrations of state capitals on top., even MI at #25)
they wouldn't have won if i'd have still been in AA.
You may have lowered the average in Ann Arbor but you probably increased the average of where you moved to.
but neanderthal man had died off by then.
Fresno!?!? In what universe is Fresno better than Ann Arbor?
Western & northern Europeans and east Asians inherited Neanderthal DNA.
One can complain about various ways to slice the MSAs, but a 15-point differential at the top is pretty damn impressive. Ann Arbor is a special place.
Must not have gotten the memo.
have the pedestrians.
My biggest A2 pet peeve has always been people walking right in front of a moving car as if it's not 4,000 pounds of steel that can kill you in an instant.
Use the damn crosswalk!
Cars have brakes.
bones break.
We have more alumni than anybody, thus we are always targeted by these clickbait lists. I wish they'd stop appearing here. You are merely advertising for "WalletHub", whatever the hell that is..
There was a list not too long ago about colleges for the best value. Michigan was near the top. I got a good laugh out of that. Especially since I live out of state. I wouldn't disagree about Ann Arbor being an educated city but Michigan grads are excellent targets for clickbait.
Side note - how do you like wallethub? How does it compare to creditkarma, mint or personal capital? Looks like a little bit of everything?
Is there that big of market for wallets to warrant a wallethub? Porn hub I can understand, huge market. I buy a wallet every other leap year so I don't see a huge profit for them.
Check out their Wolverine Wallet line. The maize is spot on.
About time they got taken down a peg. They been walkin' around like they own the damn place.
These lists are always fun to read and see reactions.
Obvious blue wall article.
What's that?
I'm just happy those hackers found the potential security flaws in PornHub! Got $20k for their work.
#PHEW
http://thehackernews.com/2016/07/pornhub-hack.html
(Apologies Zeta Tau Alpha.) But the header does properly describe what was on display this past weekend during the unified arts festivals, which have grown mostly commercial in their natures since the latter 90's.
During Summer, A-Squared ain't Oxbridge talented. Crikey townies clean up please, and I suggest you replace those decrepit slate pathways patched with asphalt inside Law Quad.
Bring on the Fall semester and then we can discuss brain power and education. This past weekend underimpressed, exception, Casa Dominick's (and may the gods bless that establishment).
is my question? How do they know in any particular area who has a degree. I couldn't tell you how many of my neighbors or co-workers have degrees. When it comes to work I could probably guess pretty accurately, but how do you know what percentage of a town's population hold some type of a degree?
Sources: Data used to create these rankings were collected from the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, GreatSchools.org and U.S. News & World Report.
AA has a large concentration of PhDs due to the University of Michigan. This survey would be more meaningful if the statistics were compiled from towns without colleges.
Reinforces our perceived arrogance, but much of that education is of little value.
Great to see AA at #1
Also happy to see Austin at #9 as we are by far #1 in the lone star state