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[jchap]

List invalidated.

Totally. Can't rely on Aggies.

 

[NoLootBoxDev]

Shouldn't be the title more like, "These are the 100 smartest cities in U.S.A/(maybe) North America (study)"?

I mean America its a continent not a country.

 

[Eaten By A Grue]

What the hell?

I mean, go Pennsylvania, but these are not the places in PA I would assume have high concentrations of intelligence.

I am from one of those cities in Pennsylvania and you sir have offended me. I challenge you to a battle of the minds to the death.

 

[Tawpgun]

Surprised Boston/Cambridge aren't much much MUCH higher.

 

[Revson]

lol at Starkville.

 

[Virtua Ben]

Atlanta, GA is not on the list with both Georgia Tech and Georgia State University. One would consider Atlanta a major college town with those two schools. However, Atlanta metro's population of 5,457,831 far outweighs the 50,000 or so students who go to both of those schools.

Don't forget Emory Uni.

 

[Slavik81]

I'm surprised Huntsville, Alabama didn't make the list.

 

[BaltimoreLarry]

Baltimore not #1?

List is fraudulent!

 

[RebornYeti]

I'm surprised anywhere from Utah was in that list, not to mention #17. Must be those UVU or BYU students or something.

 

[Thatonemoor]

As someone from Georgia I'm sadden that Florida made the list but we didn't but it doesn't suprise me in the slightest.

Edit: And its freakin Gainesville to. I live like 1 and a half hours from that place :/

 

[Karsticles]

That's a nice list of college towns.

 

[cdyhybrid]

This is a flawed study. Smart people don't need to play brain-training games.

 

[ThisWreckage]

Boone being on the list instead of Chapel Hill or Raleigh/Durham in NC calls the methodology into question for me. Boone is App State and a bunch of rednecks, that's it.

There are a lot of brilliant, laid back people up there. That redneck part especially isn't true seeing how it applies overwhelmingly to the locals.

 

[MaximusNeo701]

19. Rolla, MO

This is what happens when the number of students in an engineering school is almost half the cities population, cause trust me the locals are some of the least intelligent I have met. Though I am glad I went there, I wish they listed population along with student body size since they mention universities having a big impact though.

 

[Foxy Fox 39]

...

 

[Foxix Von]

Good lord, if Bellingham, WA can crack the top 60 we've got a long ass way to go as a country.

 

[FullMetalx117]

College Station the only texas city on there??? Glad I chose TAMU over Austin now!


But really though, I'm petty sure Austin is smarter.

 

[GraveHorizon]

Oregon, represent! I live in Albany right next to Corvallis, so it counts as a personal win as well.

 

[Brinbe]

hooray, 97
(as, others have said, probably due to all the Universities and Colleges in the Lehigh Valley)

 

[RoadDogg]

My local news just talked about this so they could brag about all of the other cities they are smarter then. They even interviewed some really dumb girl on the street who couldn't believe we made the list.

 

[Dr. Feel Good]

I'd have expected more from a city named that.

If you visited Brainerd you'd be surprised they are on the list at all. I swear that place only survives thanks to Minnesota summer cabins. Place is a shithole otherwise.

Oh and as always, fuck Iowa City. As if they needed anything else to inflate their bloated egos.

 

[oyoshimaru]

Weird, the list is different from this one:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-cities-in-america-2013-6

Stanford, CA
Princeton, NJ
Storrs Mansfield, CT
Evanston, IL
Cambridge, MA
La Jolla, CA
Amherst, MA
West Lafayette, IN
Ithaca, NY
Davis, CA
Urbana, IL
College Park, MD
Somerville, MA
State College, PA
Ann Arbor, MI
Oxford, OH
Blacksburg, VA
Chapel Hill, NC
Stony Brook, NY
Provo, UT
East Lansing, MI
Lexington, MA
Allendale, MI
Madison, WI
Iowa City, IA
Brighton, MA
Watertown, MA
Ames, IA
Bloomington, IN
Berkeley, CA
Lenexa, KS
Lawrence, KS
Charlottesville, VA
College Station, TX
Pullman, WA
Burlington, VT
Williamsburg, VA
Ambler, PA
Redmond, WA
Hillsborough, NJ
Webster, NY
Waltham, MA
Boulder, CO
Flemington, NJ
Vienna, VA
Natick, MA
Westminster, MD
Bethpage, NY
Menlo Park, CA
Harrisonburg, VA

 

[SummitAve]

Too much Wisconsin to be legit. And Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington is in no way "MN-WI" that's pure Minnesota.

 

[U2NUMB]

33. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

WTF does this mean? In no way are any of those 3 cities in Wisconsin ha

 

[Aeriscloud]

Altoona is very surprising, but other than that I don't know why you're surprised.

Penn State's main branch campus is located in Altoona I'm assuming this is why. I'm very glad to see Pennsylvania featured so many times on the list though, especially State College and Altoona, since I live very close to both.

What the hell?

I mean, go Pennsylvania, but these are not the places in PA I would assume have high concentrations of intelligence.

I am from one of those cities in Pennsylvania and you sir have offended me. I challenge you to a battle of the minds to the death.

Poor Ace Harding.

 

[Bear]

Surprised Boston/Cambridge aren't much much MUCH higher.

I was expecting it to be higher at first, but despite all the great universities, it ends up being diluted by the relatively large population of the area. Cambridge alone would probably rank significantly higher.

This type of study clearly favors small towns made up predominantly of college/university faculty and students.