Minneapolis and Seattle most literate..

[Stuart G]

Source: Yahoo News, Live Science

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071227/sc_livescience/mostliterateuscitiesminneapolisandseattle


Residents of Minneapolis and Seattle are the most bookish and well-read, according to results from a new survey released today of the most literate American cities.

The survey focused on 69 U.S. cities with populations of 250,000 or above. Jack Miller of Central Connecticut State University chose six key indicators to rank literacy. These included newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment and Internet resources.
Overall, the top 10 most literate (and wired) cities included:
1—Minneapolis, Minn.
2—Seattle, Wash.
3—St. Paul, Minn.
4—Denver, Colo.
5—Washington, D.C.
6—St. Louis, Mo.
7—San Francisco, Calif.
8—Atlanta, Ga.
9—Pittsburgh, Pa.
10—Boston, Mass.
Minneapolis, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Denver and Washington, D.C., have made the top 10 every year since 2003, when the survey first launched.
Some cities that didn't make it to the overall top 10, however, did strut their stuff in one of the six key literacy indicators. For instance, while Newark, N.J., was the 49th most literate city overall, it shared the top spot for newspaper circulation with Washington, D.C.
Plano, Texas, ranking 51st on the overall most-literate-city list, came in second for educational attainment. The education ranking included two factors: the percentage of the city's adult population with a high school diploma or higher and those with a bachelor's degree or higher.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071227/sc_livescience/mostliterateuscitiesminneapolisandseattle

[Olney Blue]

1. Crawford, Texas is not on the list?

[Stuart G]

2. I am afraid it ain's so,,about Crawford.. shoeless joe ..nt

[0007]

3. LOL! Thanks for the laugh. nt

[tularetom]

4. This pisses me off- no link anywhere to the actual study

I want to see the entire list.

[superconnected]

5. I've read lots of studies that say Seattle reads more books and sees

more movies percapita than anywhere else in the US.

I'm surprised we're not 1st on the list for literacy.

[Olney Blue]

6. Great sig line, superconnected.

:thumbsup:

[MadMaddie]

14. We do read a lot in Seattle....yea and we see a lot of movies...

I go to the matinee myself because I am cheap like that...

[Doctor_J]

7. The Red States are well-represented by Atlanta

congrats, Bushies, you weren't shut out!

[Turbineguy]

17. I have some neighbors

who used to live in Atlanta. Absolutely lovely people. They've even removed the Bush/Cheney sticker from their Denali.

[Stuart G]

8. Thses idiots can't get nothing right..at Yahoo...They didn't even get the author's name right.

In trying to verify the study that this story is based on, I found out that these idiots can't even get the name of the author right..
I wouldn't trust nothing now about this shit..here is a link ...it isn't Jack Miller,,,It is John Miller..I could find nothing on the 2007 survey...????


http://www.ccsu.edu/amlc06/

[Newsjock]

9. 2007 data here

http://www.ccsu.edu/amlc07/overview.htm

[ejbr]

16. Thanks pal!! n/t

[noel adamson]

10. It seems to me that the quality of the resources measured can ...

...make a big difference in accuracy of actually measuring the literacy, and the implied level of actual viable education, of those populations.

For instance if all of the book stores in Atlanta sell predominantly porn and Ann Coulter books while book stores in Seattle sell predominantly self help and Naomi Klein books or if the degrees come from places like MIT or Bob Jones U. and Liberty U.

No offense Atlanta.

[Roland99]

11. Damn elitist liberal cities.

:P

[depakid]

12. So, Cincinnati ranks above Portland Oregon! LOL. I don't think so.

I guess having the world's largest bookstore and free wireless throughout much of the city doesn't count for much.

Not that #12's so bad, but Cincinnati- where they prosecute museum curators for obscenity?

Please. That town's a cultural dead zone.

[billbuckhead]

13. I bet this is big news on the 12th floor of the Acme building

It's not fair, Minnesota has Garrison Keillor and the rest of the nation only gets visits.

[gratuitous]

19. Yeah, Cincinnati

Or Denver, Atlanta or Pittsburgh. Go there, young literates. Nothing in Portland. Nothing to see here. Real estate's too expensive. Buses and light rail are too crowded. Stay away. The beer's skunky, too.

Hee, hee, hee, more for me!

[TriMetFan]

20. That is what I was thinking too.

But I guess this only counts if you go to the library or subscribe to a newspaper. And our newspaper here in Oregon sucks. It sucks so much that right now The Oregonian has been doing a 7 week free subscription deal. They have been dropping off the paper every day and we just put it in the recycling bin. Most people I know get their news from the Internet.

[NJCher]

15. newspaper circulation

For instance, while Newark, N.J., was the 49th most literate city overall, it shared the top spot for newspaper circulation with Washington, D.C.

I can believe it. Wherever one goes in Newark, there's someone pushing the Star Ledger (the area's biggest newspaper). The SL is incredibly aggressive with circulation, too. For example, they will put representatives in Lowes and other big-box retail stores pushing a gift card when the person agrees to a subscription to the paper.



Cher

[tuvor]

18. Too cold and/or rainy to do much else in a lot of those cities.

[krabigirl]

21. Amazing! Orange County, CA is not on that list?

:sarcasm:

I wouldn't be surprised if it was on a bottom 10 list. When I mention the books I read to people around here, many are surprised that I read books at all. Too much sun to sit around and read, I guess.

[onager]

25. They buy books by Rush and Coulter in OC

Many years ago, the archtypical OC voter was described as "the little old lady in tennis shoes." These were the little old ladies who wrote letters to the editor denouncing fluoridated water as a Communist plot. That was pretty funny until all the little old ladies found their dream candidate and elected him Governor in 1966. His name was Reagan.

I used to live in OC many years ago. It's an incredibly schizophrenic place. The uber-rich in Newport Beach. Millionaires For Jesus in Costa Mesa (TBN, the lair of Paul and Jan Crouch), logically located right across the freeway from South Coast Plaza. (For non-SoCalers, that's a humongous upscale shopping mall). Vietnamese and meth-heads in Westminster. And thousands of right-wingers screeching about illegal immigrants while they happily recruit cheap hired help out of the barrios in Santa Ana.

Oh, and welcome to DU.

:hi:

[Didereaux]

22. Hell, I'm shocked this state(TX) even made it on the list!!!!

[JVS]

23. Yinz Bostonians aren't quite as smart like us in the burgh n'at!

[SoxFan]

26. But our football team still kicked yours!

[Didereaux]

24. Denver has the largest bookstore, and the most used bookstores per capita. a readers heaven

...but they are the DULLEST suckers you EVER want to meet. And worse they think SPICY food is one with a small sprinkle of black pepper! lol (stay off me, most of my in-laws and not a few of my relatives are from around those parts...it gives me LICENCE!) heh