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Old 12-06-2008, 12:48 PM
 
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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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Old 12-06-2008, 03:29 PM
 
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SF is obviously going to beat SD and be one of the highest.
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Old 12-06-2008, 03:30 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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What language were they testing? English? Ha
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Old 12-07-2008, 03:27 AM
 
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It's hard to respond to this topic. I feel an immigration debate coming.
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Old 12-07-2008, 11:14 AM
 
Location: San Diego
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It's hard to respond to this topic. I feel an immigration debate coming.
It's something that cannot be ignored if they are actually testing English.
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Old 12-07-2008, 11:21 AM
 
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It's something that cannot be ignored if they are actually testing English.
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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Old 12-07-2008, 11:29 AM
 
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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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Old 12-07-2008, 11:39 AM
 
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They only look at cities with populations over 250,000.
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Old 12-07-2008, 11:40 AM
 
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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.
The overview of the survey says it's a ranking of cities with a population of over 250,000.
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Old 12-07-2008, 11:44 AM
 
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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.
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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