America's smartest cities

Another study, this one compiled various population data on 200 U.S. metro areas and came up with a list of which had the smartest people. The criteria used to determine this result was in five cognitive areas: memory, processing speed, flexibility, attention, and problem solving. The median Lumos Lab score, presented as an estimated IQ score, was worth 50 percent of our final, weighted ranking. The other half of our ranking was based on the percentage of adults over age 25 with a bachelor’s and/or master’s degree.

You might be surprised at the list. Columbia Missouri is number 3 behind Madison Wisconsin and Charlottesville Virginia. Butte Montana and Fargo North Dakota made the top 25. Certainly college towns would obviously be included, but some major university towns are not to be found.

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[Delcia Crockett]

Delcia Crockett: We had a shooting in Columbia today. We have shootings and robberies on a regular basis now. My daughter was robbed at gunpoint. One of the reasons we moved to Columbia and chose the University of Missouri-Columbia over Baylor and other schools (one son qualified for Harvard) was because Columbia was rated in a national magazine as in the top ten safest places in America to live. There are people in Columbia now who do not even want to talk to the police. The feeling of safety is gone, for a lot of people. There are some big questions as to why the citizens are treated the way they are treated. I have always had the deepest respect for officers. There is no incident in my life where I have had a criminal record, or where I have not complied completely with officers. I have helped them with line-ups and helping catch lawbreakers. Now, I am doing an investigative jounalism tact on them. I have questions, and I am finding out this is a problem in other places in America. I am blogging globally, and I have only begun this journalism effort a week ago. We are told, as believers, to hold responsible those we hire to certain places that govern. If citizens cannot trust the police, then who can we trust? It is not gossip to ask hard questions and expect honest answers. That is our God-given right in a free country. ~Delcia Crockett delciarcrockett@GMail.com