• DahGangalang@infosec.pubEnglish
    66·
    11 个月前

    Neat data, but it seems like starting the coloring at 40% is really high.

    I’m curious what this would look like if they counted counties with 25% and above degree requirements.

  • pixelscript@lemm.eeEnglish
    651·
    11 个月前

    This is somewhat a “people live in cities” graph, but not as stark of one I expected. Not all big cities are so educated, plus there are a lot of rural places that draw in a surprising number of people with advanced degrees.

    Still, I’m amused that Interstate 29 in specific lights up like a string of Christmas lights.

    • bisbyEnglish
      12·
      11 个月前

      Based on the states I know, some of the surprising rural areas are where state universities are.

    • kyle@lemm.ee
      7·
      11 个月前

      Oklahoma only has 1 county lit up, and it’s where a state university is, OSU. But it’s ranked lower nationally than OU (#196 vs #132). Both are in otherwise small towns, basically overrun by their respective colleges. Anecdotally, Norman (OU) is known to have nothing in town, but Stillwater (OSU) has it’s own subculture and town pride.

      I’m curious how many of these counties just contain college towns vs how many actually might attract highly educated people.

      • pshyco_sain@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        11 个月前

        Norman is effectively a suburb of OKC. Also it’s by county so all the stuff actually closer to OKC will out weigh the college town there.

        It does appear to be mostly college towns and some high education cities though

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
      6·
      11 个月前

      Yeah. It is interesting that Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Miami aren’t on here while Salt Lake City, Denver, and Atlanta are very visible.

      • captainlezbianEnglish
        4·
        11 个月前

        Denver vs Vegas and LA isn’t surprising. Cities built on industries that don’t require education won’t be massively educated

        • Donkter
          2·
          11 个月前

          Yeah, interesting that Colorado has the highest density of 60+% is it all expats of the Midwest who don’t want to move too far away?

          Actually because it’s in percentages it could be small towns run by one large industry that requires degrees.

          • Entropywins
            3·
            11 个月前

            I assume a lot of defense stuff air force academy, NORAD, space force…

            • QuarterSwede
              2·
              11 个月前

              Doesn’t hurt that a lot of people who have visited end up coming back to stay. Colorado is pretty great place to live.

              • Entropywins
                2·
                11 个月前

                I’ve spent most of my time in southern Colorado which is alright but central/northern is stunning…it’s almost like if oregon or Washington were landlocked.

    • Addv4
      91·
      11 个月前

      NC and TN have some. But we often is.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
        1·
        11 个月前

        TN is Williamson County. Which is basically the Nashville suburbs and/or bougie town.

        Also, not a whole lot of actual locals living there, ask me how I know.

        • Addv4
          2·
          11 个月前

          I mean, for NC it’s the Durham/Raleigh suburbs plus Duke University, so plenty of out of staters (seriously, just go to Duke gardens on a weekend, it’s pretty amazing how many languages are spoken). Which would probably explain a lot of it.

    • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      21·
      11 个月前

      Eeeyup. I done good at readin, ritin, and rithmetic, but then they got ritin in thuh rithmetic and it all went ta hell. I’m plenty smart without that book learnin anyway.

    • Th3D3k0yEnglish
      6·
      11 个月前

      I want to see a map with % of high school equivalency.

      I am part of the original map though, I only have an associates

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    13·
    11 个月前

    If you are wondering what that red spot in Wyoming ans adjacent green in Idaho is, they are the Teton counties (one on each state).

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
      3·
      11 个月前

      Nah, Teton County is easy to understand although I do question how they have a higher percentage than Albany County. What I’m really wondering about though is that orange county in South Western Colorado. WTF is that about?

      • spongebue
        5·
        11 个月前

        San Miguel County. There isn’t too much there, but it does have Telluride, a very posh ski town. If I had to guess, I would say the less-educated staff (hotel housekeeping, restaurant servers, lift operators, etc) are only there seasonally but business owners/managers and maybe some remote workers are there permanently, skewing things a bit?

        I would LOVE to see a better answer than mine!

        • NegativeNull
          4·
          11 个月前

          I’m pretty sure this is the answer. That county is super sparsely populated, outside of Telluride. Telluride is a mini Aspen, so is populated by wealthy (and thus usually educated) people.

  • Flying Squid
    131·
    11 个月前

    I live near Indianapolis.

    You wouldn’t now it.

    Edit: Ironically, I made a spelling typo. Sigh.

    • LemminaryEnglish
      3·
      11 个月前

      And Arkansas and Louisiana. They’re all in the South, no surprise there. :/

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        11 个月前

        I looked to the south first and somehow missed those two. And absolutely no surprise about these two.

        • LemminaryEnglish
          2·
          11 个月前

          Ah, no worries. Funnily enough I did the same but on the East side and then saw your comment. Lmao

  • captainlezbianEnglish
    4·
    11 个月前

    Let me guess the red in Indiana contains Purdue and Bloomington

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
      10·
      11 个月前

      Because otherwise the data would be artificially lower in areas with more children.

      For example, imagine a suburb in Utah filled with college educated software engineers with big Mormon families. If you count the kids, it might look like people there don’t have degrees.

      • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
        4·
        11 个月前

        Doesn’t a bachelor’s take 4-5 years, with people starting around 18-19? I guess we’re only talking about a year or two so the higher age is to help cut down on the noise (doubt there’s many people with bachelor’s dying before 25 to skew the results)

      • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
        2·
        11 个月前

        That’s a good point, need to control for students. Wouldn’t 25 year olds still be in school for their doctorates though?

        • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
          1·
          11 个月前

          Wouldn’t 25 year olds still be in school for their doctorates though?

          Yes, I think that’s the point — they skew the numbers upwards.

    • Ledivin
      1·
      11 个月前

      21-22 is the average age to complete a bachelor’s degree, so I’d guess - other than eliminating children, who couldn’t possibly have gotten degrees yet - just evening out the data a bit to account for later starters or longer programs? They probably had a target 90% of degree-receivers or something like that