Rio Linda didn’t make the list? ;)
Washington, D.C.? Did they only measure the Eloi? If they didn’t include the Morlocks, it was racism, pure and simple.
What do all the least literate cities have in common? Illegals from south of the border. It’s not our “chob” to make illegals literate in Texas. They only have to register to vote Democrat.
This is a peculiar statement. Only Boston is in the top ten, aside from Washington, which really isn't a "northeast city" in the usual sense of the term.
Yinz all know that, like, we here in Da Burgh is literate n’at.
Doesn’t look to me like they really looked at literacy.
I don’t subscribe to a newspaper, have a college degree, there is no bookstore in my town, and I’m dirt poor. Clearly I must be illiterate.
Newspaper subscription is not an indicator of literacy.
Newspaper subscription rates, are a measure of liberalism.
A classic case of GIGO. Yeah, all of the least literate cities have a huge population of illegal amigos. But the above six categories are hardly a measure of literacy when you consider that MOST ALL of them have a substantial professional, well-paid population. But some of them also have a huge underclass with barely functional literacy.
Yes, I've lived in or near two on the list (St. Paul and Pittsburgh), neither of which have the huge underclass compared to most of the other cities on the list.
But a little secret is neither city is particularly diverse and would be castigated by the experts for such. St. Paul is largely Scandinavian, Pittsburgh is largely Irish and Eastern European, all of which are ethnic groups known for their love of literature, reading and real music. They understand that logarithms is a branch of mathematics and is not music produced with a percussion instrument.
Me in San Antonio. Can somewon tell me what this about?
I am NOT going to read all that without a definition of “literacy” first.
Need to add Memphis Tn to the list, most schools are under threat of state take over. HS Grads who go to JR College and have A/B average math grades most of them have to do remedial Math before they can take courses that need Math. What few graduate that is.
How do they account for electronic books and newspapers? With my Kindle Fire™, wherever I go, my bookstore and library go with me.
If D.C. is the most literate city then literacy obviously is not an indicator of common sense and intelligence.
Newspapers...who reads them anymore? My local paper has such little content a daily edition isn’t thick enough to line the cat box. I once told the editor that when I read his paper I read the front page, the editorials and the comics and most days couldn’t tell the difference.
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Not much of a survey. Cities like Mesa, Aurora, and Anaheim don’t have daily papers of their own because they’re part of a larger metropolis. That doesn’t make people there illiterate.
I call BS. Neither median income, nor newspaper circulation and retail bookstore rates are actually universal indicators of literacy. Not a percentage of college graduates as well, which is an indicator of how well said community educated, not as literate they are which is a big difference.