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That's a cool looking graphic and good information, but people do need to be aware of the cognitive dissonance when interpreting it.
The areas with lots of dots simply reflect population density, rather than "most educated", so you have to look very carefully at the colors to interpret how educated an area is, rather than how many dots clustered together. At first glance, if you're not careful, the most densely populated areas automatically look like the most educated because there are more dots.
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That map made my eyes hurt! Though, interesting to see where in the country the dense clusters of highly educated folks are. Boston, New York City, and DC really stood out to me. Locally, you could see that between Chapel Hill and Cary was highly educated along with Raleigh/North Raleigh, parts of Charlotte, Greensboro, and Winston Salem. Other cities were much more yellow (some college) like Burlington and Fayetteville.
People with advanced degrees are generally going to live and work where they capitalize on that education--cities and large metropolitan areas. I did a project in my first year LIS class that assessed educational attainment in Appalachia and down east the illiteracy rates were alarming. It was as many as 1 out of 4 or 5 people in some counties, pretty disheartening.
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Though, interesting to see where in the country the dense clusters of highly educated folks are. Boston, New York City, and DC really stood out to me. Locally, you could see that between Chapel Hill and Cary was highly educated along with Raleigh/North Raleigh, parts of Charlotte, Greensboro, and Winston Salem. Other cities were much more yellow (some college) like Burlington and Fayetteville.
