California 7th dumbest state

“We like to think of ourselves as anything other than what the rest of the nation sees us as.”

“The federal government cuts funds to states. States cut funds to education. Healthcare costs soar. Schools pass the buck onto local communities. Wealthy communities can afford the increases, pay thier staff better, and hire more people. This results in smaller class size, better educated kids and better test scores.

Winners - people who got tax cut money

Losers - Kids, middle class workers”

“Elf: When lived in NH for a few years, I had a great time calling my old friends in Mass, "Mass holes" as if I wasn't one of 'em, just living in NH for a few years.”

“ps: While I was in NH, it was #25.”

“Hey aero - what happened to Montana?

New state rankings:

1 Massachusetts
2 Connecticut
3 Vermont
4 New Jersey
5 Wisconsin
6 New York
7 Minnesota
8 Iowa
9 Pennsylvania
10 Montana
11 Maine
12 Virginia
13 Nebraska
14 New Hampshire
15 Kansas
16 Wyoming
17 Indiana
18 Maryland
19 North Dakota
20 Ohio
21 Colorado
22 South Dakota
23 Rhode Island
24 Illinois
25 North Carolina
26 Missouri
27 Delaware
28 Utah
29 Idaho
30 Washington
31 Michigan
32 South Carolina
33 Texas
33 West Virginia
35 Oregon
36 Arkansas
37 Kentucky
38 Georgia
39 Florida
40 Oklahoma
41 Tennessee
42 Hawaii
43 California
44 Alabama
45 Alaska
46 Louisiana
47 Mississippi
48 Arizona
49 Nevada
50 New Mexico”

“violin is SUCH a nice kind person.
I admire the little troll a lot.”

“Montana is so sparsely populated it only takes a few dumbasses from NJ moving in the drag down the average. LOL!


Why does it seem like the New England states are the dumbest? I thought that's where all the affluent liberals were?

Ohio is 20th. Yep just like the state we're simply average.”

“I know it must be hard for a person from #47 but this thread is over a year old, StoveStomper.”

“The list runs from smartest to dumbest Nigal.

I was thinking of matching this list up with the 2004 presidential election vote, but that seemed just too cruel.”

“So what's your point? ;-)”

“Montana is so sparsely populated it only takes a few dumbasses from NJ moving in the drag down the average. LOL!

Nigal
1:19:34 PM
11/19/04

Nigal, please tell me next time you're going to come out with something this funny. Soda bubbles hurt when they come out of your nose!”

“That was pretty funny......and true.”

“Smartest to dumbest...dumbest to smartest. Doesn't change Ohio much. We're still average...”

“It isn't even smart or dumb. It is a measure of the quality of schools based on a long list of criteria not all of which have anything to do with intelligence.”

“So the rankings could be effected by over taxation by liberal state governments?”

“WE'RE 41! WE'RE 41! WE'RE 41! WE'RE 41!”

“Are we sure that this survey is measuring schools and not inability to drive?”

“With few exceptions, the rankings show that states with very low immigration from Mexico, those in New England, are at the top of the list, while those that are border states, California & Southwest, rank closer to the bottom.

Methinks that English-as-a-second language has something to do with how this test was scored.

So... are we to conclude that Violin is a racist for publishing this and "poking fun" at immigrant-laden states?”

“No, this definitely proves that ice cream causes stupidity.

The states that consume the most ice cream (in the south) are the dumbest.

Gotta love statistics.”

“LMAO Fritz!

Wanderer - NY, VT, NH, Maine are all border states. ;)

Also, DC is pretty well ranked for income/education level. Although not a border state, much less a state, methinks we have plenty-o-people from the very deep South.


BTW - does this ranking explain The Governator?
last edited: 11/19/04 1:39:25 PM”

“Out in California, wer're not dumb - we're just diverse. Standard testing just isn't going to be able to measure intelligence out this way.”

“Hippies are pretty dumb.”

“hey, indys 17. almost legal to see us nude!”

“After hearing all those Hollywood types talk during the election process, I think seventh is a very generous ranking.

Must be the folks from California on this site who are skewing the curve.”

“Boy, 9, learns to spell 310-letter word

A nine-year-old US boy surprised his teacher when he correctly spelt out a 310-letter word in class.

Aaron Zweig was challenged to learn the word by his teacher at his school in Randolph, New Jersey, but she didn't expect him to succeed.

Teacher Ruth Kalata told the Randoph Recorder: "I told him he should come back to me when he had learned the word, thinking he never would.

"But two weeks later he was back and spelled it in front of my class. It was really a joke to challenge him, but he thrives on challenges like that."

Ms Kalata said that last year, the boy learned to spell two, extremely long words, antidisestablishmentarianism and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

But the two words with 34 and 28 letters, respectively, were puny compared with the latest challenge.

The 310-letter word is too long to reproduce here but it starts: "Ornicopy..." and finishes: "ulinaniac".

It was apparently used by medieval scribes to refer to someone who practices divination or forecasting by means of phenomena, interpretation of acts or various other manifestations.

"When Aaron spelled the word in front my class, he paused part way through and told the class not to worry because he was almost done," said Ms Kalata.

"It amazed me that he could pause, make a comment, then continue spelling without losing his place."
last edited: 11/19/04 3:58:54 PM”

“"I was thinking of matching this list up with the 2004 presidential election vote, but that seemed just too cruel.”

VioliN



I did that when the list came out, LOL. Indexing Bible Belt states to divorce rates is a hoot, also.”

“Ornicopytheobibliopsychocrystarroscioaerogenethliometeoroaustrohieroanothropoichthyopyrosiderochpnomyoalectryoophiobotanopegohydrorhabdocrithoaleuroal-phitohalomolybdoclerobeloaxinocoscinodactyliogeolithonpessopsephrocatoptrotephraoneirochoonychodactyloarithstichooxogeloscogastrogyrocerobletonooenoscapulinaniac
last edited: 11/19/04 4:01:37 PM”

“another reason to ignore violin.”

“I guess the more educated you are, the less giving and charitable you are:

http://www.catalogueforphilanthropy.org/cfp/db/generosity.php?year=2004”

“Wanderer - NY, VT, NH, Maine are all border states. ;)

Bearmagnet
1:36:57 PM
11/19/04

Here in the northeastern border states, we don't tend to get a huge influx of Canadians. ;-)”

“Last time I heard, most Canadians spoke English (yes, I know there are French-speaking provinces, I said MOST, not ALL). Most Mexican's don't, THAT was the point.”

“In upstate NY most of the Canadians speak French.”

“1. Northern states rate better cause those kids don't want to get kicked out into the cold and snow.

2. Heating and just about everything costs more in the north, so they naturally have to spend more money. And higher expenditures can mean more dumb kids. It requires more work, and thus more money, to educate those dumb kids.

3 Many of the rating factors relate, so I would have to question any significance to this report. For example, average class size and pupil-teacher ratios are almost the same thing, or should be unless they're playing some games.”

“From a sociologist's point of view I think you short-changed yourself. Your comments are worth at least four cents, or even five cents! lol j/k You make some good points.”

“rich folks must think some of their taxes go to welfare”

“If California made money everytime it caught on fire they'd have the biggest budget surplus in the freaking U.S.”

“LOL...its a little trick we learned in Georgia years ago.

Proscriptive burning. Whereby you burn off the duff and small fuels in an organized fashion. The Left coast opposes it because...well the National Forests is where the Pot growers grow.”

“Gee I didn't realize drug dealers were running the USDA Division of Forestry.”

“Um Chili...its pretty freaking obvious you haven't a clue...so here goes.

One of the reasons there are protests over this type of management in California is precisely BECAUSE of what I stated.

one of the classes we teach Forestry Firefighters is how to notice when they get close. There are booby traps etc in these areas..rather scary.”

“http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/iffn/country/us/us_9.htm

This is a good overview of USDA policy. There are dozens of technical papers out there.

I didn't see dope mentioned in any one of them.

Now, I am sure there are protests by pot growers/smokers in California. I am equally sure that pot is being grown/smoked in Georgia.

I don't think you can make the logical leap that California's fire problems are a result of those protests.

I think one would be compelled to look at geography, terrain and the interface of urban/rural areas in making any type of analysis.”

“chili's spent more time in the Smokies than most of this board combined. I think he's heard of booby trapped areas to protect pot fields.

I think we even had that conversation on our way out on the footballapalooza trip.....or maybe the AT one, can't recall which.”

“It's as if he skipped right over your post XL, and did not read it...”

“Ooooh, here comes the bully to protect XL. I better watch out before I get a bloody nose.”

“nevertheless, it seems as if you did not read it.

I think XL would disagree with you that I am on this board protecting him.”

“HPD, you seem to be well read and want to defend Dan.

Go find me an article where the "left coast" opposes prescribed burns because that is where pot is grown.
last edited: 8/14/09 6:31:31 AM”

“Again, this has nothing to do with "defending Dan". This has to do with you seemed to have missed his point entirely. Why would you say that I "seem to be well read (on this point)"? That's absurd. The fact is, you argued with him even though you apparently ignored what he was saying. That's typical of you.”

“It's not a wonder you couldn't handle being a lawyer.”

“Well genius. Tell me just WTF I misunderstood.


Proscriptive burning. Whereby you burn off the duff and small fuels in an organized fashion. The Left coast opposes it because...well the National Forests is where the Pot growers grow.”
theXL400
5:01:49 AM
8/14/09”

“He never said it was policy. He said: "one of the classes we teach Forestry Firefighters is how to notice when they get close. There are booby traps etc in these areas..rather scary"

They stay away from the traps because they are rather scary.”

“He said, and I quote...."The left coast opposes it (prescribed burns) BECAUSE...well the National Forest is where the Pot growers grow". (Emphasis added)

Did you #&%!$ing read it?”