Thread: Wisconsin fans smarter than Minnesota fans

Read it and weep Minnesotans.


http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/package.jsp?name=fte/smartstates/smartstates


Let's not formulate any lame excuses over this.

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Weep over three spots lower, I would happy if my state was 7 out of 50.


By the way, I live in New Mexico but i'm from Arizona. The drop out rates, the education in the schools, the violence in small towns is crazy. Not the smartest people in NM, I could get into specifics as to why but i'm not gonna afend anyone here.

All the educated people in Wisconsin cheer for the Vikes

All the uneducated people in Minnesota route for the Packers and the Bears because it is equally unintelligable.

"fan4favre" wrote:

Read it and weep Minnesotans.

Let's not formulate any lame excuses over this.

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No problem. You live in Texas. Texas is #33 on your list. Your SN is fan4favre. That just about explains everything, we have no need to formulate excuses about you.

Did you read how those scores were measured bud? They put other things into the equation like school violence, class size,and student-teacher ratios. I am studying to be a research psychologist, and one of the things I learned is to always make sure there are no confounding variables to take awawy validity of your surveying. In you case with your argument you completely misplaced this "study" and they clearly mistitled it. If I brought this article to my research methods psych teacher he would flip out (and no he doesn't carea bout the order of the states) from the discription given the study doesn't really measure anything specific at all. It kinda just takes a bunch of school variables, throws them in a pot, and you come up with some ranking from that without really knowing what it means...don't believe everything you see or read is true bud, no matter what they tell you down in Texas...

"Kleinsasser40" wrote:

Did you read how those scores were measured bud? They put other things into the equation like school violence, class size,and student-teacher ratios. I am studying to be a research psychologist, and one of the things I learned is to always make sure there are no confounding variables to take awawy validity of your surveying. In you case with your argument you completely misplaced this "study" and they clearly mistitled it. If I brought this article to my research methods psych teacher he would flip out (and no he doesn't carea bout the order of the states) from the discription given the study doesn't really measure anything specific at all. It kinda just takes a bunch of school variables, throws them in a pot, and you come up with some ranking from that without really knowing what it means...don't believe everything you see or read is true bud, no matter what they tell you down in Texas...

Tell 'em, K40...what most people don't realize is that you can pretty much get any result you want if you put in the necessary data...like they say, GIGO (garbage in, garbage out)!

Damn my state sucks but im suprised we arent dead last. :lol: Too much violence and dropouts happen here. Also grade average for the state is also below national average.

haha wisconsin is smarter than us omg they got cheese and taxidermy houses in one. how smart ids that?

"cheesefree" wrote:

"fan4favre" wrote:

Read it and weep Minnesotans.

Let's not formulate any lame excuses over this.

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No problem. You live in Texas. Texas is #33 on your list. Your SN is fan4favre. That just about explains everything, we have no need to formulate excuses about you.

Born and raised in Wisconsin however.

"Kleinsasser40" wrote:

Did you read how those scores were measured bud? They put other things into the equation like school violence, class size,and student-teacher ratios. I am studying to be a research psychologist, and one of the things I learned is to always make sure there are no confounding variables to take awawy validity of your surveying. In you case with your argument you completely misplaced this "study" and they clearly mistitled it. If I brought this article to my research methods psych teacher he would flip out (and no he doesn't carea bout the order of the states) from the discription given the study doesn't really measure anything specific at all. It kinda just takes a bunch of school variables, throws them in a pot, and you come up with some ranking from that without really knowing what it means...don't believe everything you see or read is true bud, no matter what they tell you down in Texas...

Oh please, don't give me any excuses. A study is a study. Do I necessarily agree with the elements that comprise the results? No. This is a thread meant only to slow the madness here surrounding the "Education" level of Packer fans. For these results on this site.....seeing is believing!

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