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12-06-2008, 01:48 PM
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San Diego is "third most literate city" in California
San Diego (#36) comes out ahead of the following California cities in a ranking of literacy:
Oakland #46
Riverside #52
Los Angeles #53
San Jose #54
Santa Ana #57
Fresno #58
Long Beach #60
Bakersfield #64
Anaheim #67
Stockton #69
Only San Francisco (#7) and Sacramento (#25) come out ahead.
http://www.ccsu.edu/AMLC07/Default.htm
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12-06-2008, 04:29 PM
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SF is obviously going to beat SD and be one of the highest.
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12-06-2008, 04:30 PM
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What language were they testing? English? Ha
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12-07-2008, 04:27 AM
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It's hard to respond to this topic. I feel an immigration debate coming.
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12-07-2008, 12:14 PM
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It's hard to respond to this topic. I feel an immigration debate coming.
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It's something that cannot be ignored if they are actually testing English. |
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12-07-2008, 12:21 PM
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It's something that cannot be ignored if they are actually testing English.
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It actually has nothing to do with English or immigration. It's about newspaper circulation, the number of bookstores per capita, etc. |
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Did they really find "higher literacy" in these cities higher than educated cities like Newport Beach, Irvine, Huntington Beach, Thousand Oaks, and Mission Viejo?
What's their definition of a city? Because Anaheim is no more of a city than Newport is.
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12-07-2008, 12:39 PM
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They only look at cities with populations over 250,000.
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12-07-2008, 12:40 PM
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Did they really find "higher literacy" in these cities higher than educated cities like Newport Beach, Irvine, Huntington Beach, Thousand Oaks, and Mission Viejo?
What's their definition of a city? Because Anaheim is no more of a city than Newport is.
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The overview of the survey says it's a ranking of cities with a population of over 250,000. |
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12-07-2008, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale
It actually has nothing to do with English or immigration. It's about newspaper circulation, the number of bookstores per capita, etc.
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SF has alot of gay porn bookstores, that probably put them up there in terms of literacy.
It is an idiotic study. Bookstores and newspapers does not necessarily mean a city is literate. I order almost every book I read online, Many people do. |
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