[quote=no_such_reality]Poorer areas = lower attainment
more affluent = higher attainment.
The chart can be misleading. If you scroll the chart up to LA and look at the West side, you kind of think whoa, that’s a lot of blue for advanced degrees.
IF you check the census and compare Rancho Santa Fe, Irvine and Santa Monica you realize the Santa Monica is actually the lowest of the three for advance degree percentage. In fact, RSF, being low density, blows both out with full ten percentage points higher ratio of advance degrees.
The chart, IMHO, really needs to be corrected for population density.[/quote]
The study was supposed to represent population – looking at a distance you can see concentrations. This is why 1 dot is 25 people.
What got me was the amount of red in LA – Jefferson Park/Florence area. Compare the ratio to out in the boonies Victorville. The educational attainment in Las Vegas was better than those areas of LA, except for possibly a small area of North Las Vegas.
I find the results kind of disturbing. Even Billings, Montana looks better.
