KimberlySayWhat Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.ph...test_state_texa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west20th Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Aaaaah......blue states the smartest? I think you've really started something here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 here's the fox article referenced: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,222279,00.htmland the morgan quitno site:http://www.morganquitno.com/edpress06.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 and the morgan quitno site:http://www.morganquitno.com/edpress06.htmThe 2006 award measures states based on factors including expenditures for instruction, pupil-teacher ratios, high school graduation and dropout rates, and reading, writing and math proficiency. Expenditures for instruction? Policy correlated to political affiliation...so if more money spent is automatically translated to a 'smarter' state, regardless of how it is used, then yeah, I'd expect blue states to pull ahead in this measure. And pupil-teacher ratios are linked to the aforementioned expenditures, which means that to some extent, they're double-counting a variable.The only things other than academic performance that should've been taken into account are adult educational attainment measures and IQ studies. Extraneous variables, used properly, do nothing to help a descriptive or predictive model. Used improperly, as I'd suggest is probably the case, they hurt it by a significant measure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Timmy Chan's Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Texas behind Indiana? That's embarrassing...I worked at a Ticketmaster call center up in Ohio one summer (early 90's). We took calls from Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky. From my personal experience, the hayseeds up in Indiana made the hillbillies in WV and KY sound like absolute geniuses! (I was always surprised to get a phone call from West Virginia...I didn't know they had phones up in the backwoods of Appalachia!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumapayam Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Looks like we are average, exactly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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