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How it worked:
- Metropolitan areas (the cities and their suburbs) of 1 million people or more (55 in all).
- All data was then organized on a per-capita basis (brainiest cities, not the biggest).
- Criteria divided into two halves (half for education, and half for intellectual environment).
- The education half encompassed how many residents had bachelor’s degrees (35 percent weighting) and graduate degrees (15 percent). No credit was given for “some college,” or “some grad school.”
- The intellectual environmental half had three subparts. Nonfiction book sales (25 percent), ratio of institutions of higher education (15 percent), and percentage of eligible voters who cast ballots in the last presidential election (10 percent).
LINK.
If you're too lazy to look, here's the top 10:
1.) RALEIGH-DURHAM (North Carolina)
2.) SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND-SAN JOSE (California)
3.) BOSTON (Massachusetts)
4.) MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL (Minne-SNOW-da)
5.) DENVER (Colorado)
6.) HARTFORD-NEW HAVEN (Connecticut)
-tie- 7.) SEATTLE-TACOMA (Washington)
-tie- 7.) WASHINGTON, DC
9.) PORTLAND (Oregon)
10.) BALTIMORE (Maryland)
As for the bottom 10.. Texas.. LOL. |
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| Message Posted On Saturday, October 10th 2009 At 2:19 pm |
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| Message Posted On Saturday, October 10th 2009 At 11:52 pm |
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| Message Posted On Sunday, October 11th 2009 At 12:04 am |
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I'd have to put Minnesota at the bottom. Those are the idiots who elected Jesse Ventura and Al Franken. |
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| Message Posted On Sunday, October 11th 2009 At 10:52 am |
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| On Sunday, October 11th 2009 10:52 am, Mad_Buck wrote: | | I'd have to put Minnesota at the bottom. Those are the idiots who elected Jesse Ventura and Al Franken. |
Good thing Minnesota isn't a city. |
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| Message Posted On Sunday, October 11th 2009 At 11:30 am |
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Yay, SLC is 14! I hate Ralph Becker though.
Even though I'm not surprised, I'm really disappointed that Cincinnati is so low. (#43) |
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| Message Posted On Sunday, October 11th 2009 At 1:30 pm |
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| On Sunday, October 11th 2009 11:30 am, Ryan wrote: | | On Sunday, October 11th 2009 10:52 am, Mad_Buck wrote: | | I'd have to put Minnesota at the bottom. Those are the idiots who elected Jesse Ventura and Al Franken. |
Good thing Minnesota isn't a city. |
Neither is Texas.
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| Message Posted On Monday, October 12th 2009 At 1:47 pm |
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| Message Posted On Thursday, October 15th 2009 At 6:30 pm |
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| Message Posted On Sunday, October 18th 2009 At 5:41 pm |
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Philly is 11th! It beat NYC! 
What's funny (and scary) is the state capitol Harrisburg is in the bottom 5. 
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