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US States Ranked by Education/Stupidity.

Posted on 17th February 2023

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I am including the link to this story on Finance 1st for reference. It ranks US states by education.

There are not really any surprises in the article: the richer and more urban states tend to be better educated, and the poorer states and those where lots of people are involved in agriculture and coal mining tend to be more ignorant.

In summary, the ranking is as follows (most educated states first):

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

It should be remembered that this is a relative ranking of education/ignorance, and in no way implies that residents of any state are any more or less educated, compared to any other country. Although there are plenty of examples on the Internet of how ignorant some Americans can be, I know from personal experience that this is not true of all of them.