Careful, you'll get into the joke about migration from one place to another
raising the average IQ of both.

jp
----- Original Message -----
From: "fred White" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] 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
>
> "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
>   - Abraham Lincoln
>
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