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Tucson at #34? That's complete bull .
San Antonio ranked #53 of 55 total
San Antonio is ahead of only Las Vegas and Fresno.
Here's how they ranked the cities:
and here's a link to the textWe only ranked metropolitan areas (the cities and their suburbs) of 1 million people or more, using Census data, with the definition of each greater metropolitan area defined by Nielsen. That gave us 55 in all. All data was then organized on a per-capita basis, so that a resident of Norfolk, Virginia, and New York, New York, had equal weight. We’re looking for the brainiest cities, not the biggest.
Then we divided the criteria 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”—we rewarded those who finished the race. The intellectual environmental half had three subparts. First, we looked at nonfiction book sales (25 percent), as tracked by Nielsen BookScan, the nation’s leading provider of accurate point-of-sale data, which tracks roughly 300,000 les each week. We focused on nonfiction as an imperfect proxy for intellectual vigor, because overall sales are dominated by fiction works that, while entertaining, aren’t always particularly thought-provoking. We also measured the ratio of ins utions of higher education (15 percent), as defined by the federal government—different than just measuring college degrees, this acknowledges that universities don’t just churn out diplomas, but instead drive the intellectual vigor of cities. Finally, many studies link intelligence and political engagement, so we weighed this, too, as measured by the percentage of eligible voters who cast ballots in the last presidential election (10 percent). (Our relatively small weighting acknowledges that numerous other local factors can affect turnout.)
Once we had all these comparable, per-capita figures, we ranked the cities in each category, assigning 10 points to those near the very top, and 0 to the bottom, with scores allocated between in a broad bell curve. We then added the totals, and multiplied by two, which made for a perfect score of 200, a wash-out score of 0, and an average score right at 100—close to the exact parameters of a classic IQ test.
Tucson at #34? That's complete bull .
what an elitist survey. i can take half of the mexicans in the west side and they can put together a car faster than most of the mechanical engineering students in the raleigh NC area.
Fresno is the second tiest city in California after South San Diego. It might even be tier.
It's a pretty badly set up survey... but I'd agree we're not the most text book savy city.
Still some of the nicest people in the country though.
I'm not surprised
I don't really like the categories selected for the rankings, San Antonio is a military town so Im sure a lot less people have degrees on top of the diversity. Im not sure voting really has a direct correlation with Intelligence.
so we talk more about the cowboys and spurs than we do about the impressionists or postmodernism. i'll take that trade off over living in a city littered with coffee houses and know-it-alls in berets.
I think street smarts, common sense, creativity, and real life production are important factors to consider when defining intelligence.
The ability to memorize and repeat in some cases causes people to appear more intelligent than they actually are.
Futhermore, what is the purpose of a survey like the one listed?
I think we need more coffee houses in San Antonio. And people wearing berets! What's different is I don't talk about postmodernism at coffee houses, it's mostly chatter about work or my sex life.
Rofl, San Antonio not being very educated and ranking low is not news. Everyone already knows this.
and how is your sex life? PM me the details if necessary.
Satisfying.
Do you own a beret?
and in the end we are all just preoccupied with sex. as this thread has proven.
I blame edison for this
edison high school always gets the blame.
If it will help your sex life I'd consider.
Buddy Holly with some spin in...3...2.........
55 minus 53 is 2 so that means we are the second least smarterest city in 'merica.San Antonio ranked #53 of 55 total
and seeing where houston, dallas and SA ranked then texas is stupid as . yet, CA with the smartest mean is almost broke while texas continues to flourish.
San Antonio is still consistently ranked one of the top honeymoon destinations in the United States as well as one of the best places to raise a family.
I'm surprised SA ranked that high.
I love SA
Spurfan being dumb is not breaking news.
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