States Ranked: Smartest to Dumbest

[POLO]

Warning;I really don't want to cause a prejudice or attacking someone integrity,... http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ne...tates

[AKLGT]

Quote, originally posted by POLO »Warning;I really don't want to cause a prejudice or attacking someone integrity,... http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ne...tates there, you gotta put tags on there, paul.

[AKLGT]

alaska is #45, but not surprising... just go out to the rural bush areas and you will know why we rank so low! then compare it to the anchorage areas and you will see a HUGE difference! just a very different life style and culture out there.

[nismo]

yeah, MI is #31. I never thought that we were smart anyways. duhh Inder

[drunkenmaxx]

i'm in #24! i guess it helps to have me here!

[ToolGuy]

31...

[silver_vibe]

California #43 - You mean there are 7 other states with more stupid people than mine? All kidding asside, the "States received negative points for high drop-out rates and physical violence" probably had a lot to do with California's low ranking.

[Robert G]

Well, comparing this list against the results of the recent election:1. MassachusettsBLUE2. ConnecticutBLUE3. Vermont BLUE4. New JerseyBLUE5. WisconsinBLUE6. New YorkBLUE7. MinnesotaBLUE8. Iowa red9. PennsylvaniaBLUE10. Montanared11. Maine BLUE12. Virginia red13. Nebraskared14. New HampshireBLUE15. Kansas red16. Wyomingred17. Indianared18. MarylandBLUE19. North Dakotared20. Ohio red21. Coloradored22. South Dakotared23. Rhode IslandBLUE24. Illinois BLUE25. North Carolinared26. Missourired27. DelawareBLUE28. Utah red29. Idaho red30. WashingtonBLUE31. MichiganBLUE32. South Carolinared33. Texas and West Virginia (tie)red34. Oregon BLUE35. Arkansasred36. Kentuckyred37. Georgiared38. Florida red39. Oklahomared40. Tennesseered41. Hawaii BLUE42. CaliforniaBLUE43. Alabamared44. Alaska red45. Louisianared46. Mississippired47. Arizona red48. Nevada red49. New MexicoredSee a pattern?

[Robert G]

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[silver_vibe]

Quote, originally posted by Robert G »Sorry, I couldn't resist.Wow - you replied fast! I deleted my post right after I wrote it and you already had replied! Sorry, now people won't know what you couldn't resist. (I basically had said I thought the "red/blue comment" would be better off in the Political Asylum Forum)

[kostby]

Hmmmm! The top of the list looks like it's reserved for the Blue States!Indiana is at #17?? Not possible.

[POLO]

Me too i haved this intention,but with color with more eye catching.

[ToolGuy]

Quote, originally posted by Robert G »See a pattern?Oh yeah I see a pattern and thought about education levels and the way states vote before. Others I know have too.

[silver_vibe]

IMO, "educated" does not equal "smart".There are many "educated" people with a warped sense of reality: http://globalguerrillas.typepa....htmlTHIS THREAD NOW BELONGS IN THE POLITICAL ASYLUM.

[ToolGuy]

Quote, originally posted by silver_vibe »IMO, "educated" does not equal "smart".There are many "educated" people with a warped sense of reality: http://globalguerrillas.typepa....htmlTHIS THREAD NOW BELONGS IN THE POLITICAL ASYLUM.Right and that is what I factored, I am not saying any State is more smart, just education levels of the population in that state. Pol Forum is right.

[drunkenmaxx]

Quote, originally posted by silver_vibe »IMO, "educated" does not equal "smart".right on. i hate people who never had anything better to do than study, who then think that they are more intelligent than you. knowledge and intelligence are totally different from one another. you can know jack squat and be a genius.

[Mavrik]

Quote, originally posted by trdvibe »alaska is #45, but not surprising... just go out to the rural bush areas and you will know why we rank so low! then compare it to the anchorage areas and you will see a HUGE difference! just a very different life style and culture out there.well when the greatest Alaskian ends up on Jay Leno with a chainsaw... "Bye bye bye!"

[drunkenmaxx]

Quote, originally posted by Mavrik »well when the greatest Alaskian ends up on Jay Leno with a chainsaw... "Bye bye bye!">

[ToolGuy]

Quote, originally posted by silver_vibe »All kidding asside, the "States received negative points for high drop-out rates and physical violence" probably had a lot to do with California's low ranking.Right...

[silver_vibe]

Quote, originally posted by drunkenvibe »right on. i hate people who never had anything better to do than study, who then think that they are more intelligent than you. knowledge and intelligence are totally different from one another. you can know jack squat and be a genius."educated" does not equal "smart", but choosing to not be get an education is dumb. Don't take this the wrong way (I don't want to offend anyone*), I realize many people don't have the opportunity to get a good education for either personal or economical reasons, but people who do have the opportunity to get educated but don't are either lazy or dumb (IMO).Just like we both dislike "…people who never had anything better to do than study, who then think that they are more intelligent than you." I dislike people who are lazy and throw away every opportunity for a good education and say "I don’t need an education to prove I am smart" or "I am a victim of my surroundings so I can’t educated" or “insert next lame excuse here>”   *my dad is the smartest person I know, yet he only made to a 3rd grade education because of WWII.

[ToolGuy]

Dale Earnhardt Sr. dropped out of High School yet he was a very smart business man and very wealthy. Yet some would say what does he know, he is a dumb race car driver...I respect and miss Dale.

[POLO]

You are right,If you go to school,even your nor not very bright it help you to resonate better.And,if your not smart you can't go very far in school.But,lot's of thing enter in consideration,the entourage,the social,financial,...When a little kid born in a place that is entourage goe"s to shool,...the little kid will thing going in svhool is something normal,and a must,the kid will have moral to going to school is important.Becauss the kid make what they see.And,the intelligent is not only a question about smart or not.Until now we discover 7 kind of intelligent,...1* Language intelligence,the people who can speak lot"s of difference language.2* Spacial,3d,... This more for astronaut,3* Logic,...Is not on order,the rest i forgot,but when i rembered i will post.I know this subject,becauss i already take psychological courses.Before i wanted to become a psychologist

[ToolGuy]

You can lead a person to a university but you cannot make them think...

[POLO]

It depend"s ,...

[POLO]

IMO, "educated" does not equal "smart".There are many "educated" people with a warped sense of reality: [URL]http://globalguerrillas.typepa....html For that article,maybe they are intelligent,but the people who recruit brainwash this students.

[Mavrik]

Quote, originally posted by drunkenvibe »>Inside joke Hope will get or anyone else who watched Tom Green travel from state to state looking for the greatest citizen of that area, it was shown on Jay Leno.

[Charlievibe]

YEAH!!!!! Tennessee isn't #50 anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are always in the bottom of everything.

[russ257]

i think this is more of a list of state with the best school system. it in no way tracks adults

[redlava]

GO IOWA!!!#8 Baby!!!

[millster]

Well, I must say that as an employee of the public school system in Billings, I'm glad to see MT in the top 10. Must mean that we're doing our jobs well.

[ColonelPanic]

Quote, originally posted by kostby »Indiana is at #17?? Not possible. *scratching my head* Good point! Hoosiers aren't necessarily well-known for their intellectual prowess at times. lol! I've been meaning to ask you if your "keep right" sign pointing to the left came from this state. But ahh, I love it here! I'm a transplant, but I feel much more at home here than I did where I previously lived, so I definitely consider myself a Hooiser. lol The strange, sometimes backwards way we do things somehow feels right to me.

[steves76]

Go CT #2

[AKLGT]

Quote, originally posted by Mavrik »Inside joke Hope will get or anyone else who watched Tom Green travel from state to state looking for the greatest citizen of that area, it was shown on Jay Leno.yes, he came up over memorial weekend to find the "most interesting" person in the state. ended up being a chainsaw "artist" (carves wood with a chainsaw and sells them for like $400 to the tourists) on crack! and the bad thing was the guy was from EAGLE RIVER! so.. it made us look bad! lol. we watched it inside the world famous Chilkoot Charlies while tom green interviewed people at the bar previously that week.