DC Rated America's 2nd Most Literate City

[freddyisback]

Just wanted to clear things; according to the 2012 survey, D.C. now ranks 1ST among America's Most Literate Cities. Here is the weblink:


Central Connecticut State University (CCSU): 2012

[IndiaLimaDelta]

These are poor proxies for literacy.

I lived in Seattle for a number of years. The literacy level there is laughable compared to this region. There is a certain culture of being poseur among the culturally and economically aspiring in Seattle. People will talk about the only foreign trip they ever had in their lives and the latest hip novels, but the vast majority of "college graduates" there wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Plato and Aristotle.

A sizable portion of the population thinks Seattle is actually the center of the world. No irony whatsoever.

I am not a big fan of of the Northeast, but the literacy level in traditional Northeastern edu-cities such as Cambridge, MA is incomparable in this country.

[Carlingtonian]

I think these criteria aren't the best ones. E.g., percentage of population that reads the local paper: I only read the Post on Sundays (mostly for Date Lab--who's with me!?), because it's far from the best on national or local news--and so I read a bunch of other papers/news sites during the week. Also, number of bookstores is not an indicator of how much people read or have read, esp. with e-readers.