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For the purposes of this poll, you don't have to be degreed, just college educated.
I'm wondering what the slant is on CD users compared to the avg in the triangle. If anyone has the data point on the >50% number of college educated adults, the highest percentage of population in the country, I'd love to read it again. Came out about a year ago if I recall correctly. Maybe longer?
If I can't successfully post a poll - just add posts with yes or no, I guess.
I've always wondered about the "some college" category. If you only went a semester or two, isn't that really the same as no college? Oh, wait! You have one semester at Wake Tech under your belt so you are somehow smarter than the next guy. Anyway.
I am third year in collge. So I put some college. But this is the RDU thread...my guess is most are eduacated. Do this same thread for downeast NC....lol
However, don't let the good ole boys fool ya....they are smarter than you think....just not book smart!
I'm wondering what the slant is on CD users compared to the avg in the triangle. If anyone has the data point on the >50% number of college educated adults, the highest percentage of population in the country, I'd love to read it again. Came out about a year ago if I recall correctly. Maybe longer?
Using City-Data - surprise, surprise - the percentages with at least a college degree are:
Durham - 42%
Raleigh - 45%
Cary - 61%
Chapel Hill - 74%
Take the populations of each city and you can figure it out for the region, but it looks to be less than 50%, probably around 45%.
I've always wondered about the "some college" category. If you only went a semester or two, isn't that really the same as no college? Oh, wait! You have one semester at Wake Tech under your belt so you are somehow smarter than the next guy. Anyway.
What the......?? Nice positive comment there. There are all kinds of reasons why people may not have been able to finish their education.
I've always wondered about the "some college" category. If you only went a semester or two, isn't that really the same as no college? Oh, wait! You have one semester at Wake Tech under your belt so you are somehow smarter than the next guy. Anyway.
It's not a measure of "smarts", it's a measure of the value of education. Someone who leaves high school and thinks "I'll never sit in another classroom again" may be smarter than someone who starts or maybe finishes college, but the point of interest is that they did not, for whatever reasons.
I'm told that this is one reason many employers choose college grads over non-college grads; while the job itself may not require "classroom learning", the fact that one can pursue and finish a degree shows at least some level of "finishing what they started", which is an important trait for employees to have. Obviously, many must drop out of school for all kinds of reasons against their will, but even many of those will eventually go back and finish, if they have that "drive". I know a woman in her mid 50s who has been to at least 5 different colleges and universities and switched majors all over the place in the past 30 years; she finally sat down with a dean and said "look at my transcript and pick whatever I can get the fastest degree in". She's been working full time and taking one class at a time towards her degree for several years now; whatever you think of the perhaps impetuous reasons for choosing a major, you can't say she isn't perseverent.
Note that such measures always refer to "most educated...", not "smartest", though of course there is going to be a self-selection with each additional step on the ladder to at least a minimum level.
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If anyone has the data point on the >50% number of college educated adults, the highest percentage of population in the country, I'd love to read it again. Came out about a year ago if I recall correctly. Maybe longer?
They've been quoting this figure for literally decades--I remember hearing it in the 1980s. I don't know how often such studies are done, but the "word on the street" is that we are #1 in people with degrees but then I've seen actual data that puts us lower, but still in the Top 10. To be sure, we are a very educated area, but it's very hard to define "most educated of all".
And of course you are aware that you can't get any statistically valid info from a voluntary reader poll of one website. People who use the internet are generally more educated than those who don't, and people who read websites such as this one--to learn about a particular area and it's people--show yet another level of interest in learning, so of course the %ages are going to be quite high among we folks here
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