Where's New Mexico?

Seriously, if one wanted to argue the point about Massachusetts, it could've been based on all the
students/faculty that go to MIT, Harvard, etc and then stay here permanently...but I tend to dismiss
these kind of rankings anyways.
(actually, I wrote this before checking the Wired site - boy am I smart!)

The people doing the polls are (like I guess in this case) peddling a book, or have paid for the
poll to 'prove' that their product is better than someone elses.

Bruce Conrad
Perot Systems, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Account
Boston, MA (#15, where we have Nuclear Physicist's working at McDonalds)

Date:    Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:29:15 -0700
From:    fred White <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: OT: 2003 Smartest State Rankings in U.S.

On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 01:43 PM, Wirt Atmar wrote:

> Those rankings have to be taken in context -- and "smartness" of the
> students
> has very little to do with them. The publishers' primary considerations
> concern themselves with the dollar value spent per student. In that
> form of metric,
> the northeastern states will always come out on top, simply in part
> because
> those states also have the very highest per capita incomes and
> spending per
> student tends to be based on the available tax base.
>
> On the other hand, you can read material such as this:
>
>      http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/silicon.html?pg=2
>
> which may be a more fair measure.
>
> Wirt Atmar

If the people in Massachusetts were really smart, they'd move to New
Mexico.

FW

* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *