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It's true, dumb is the opposite of smart, but nothing there implies that small town folk are dumb. Small town folk are of average intelligence, with a lower co
by true_religion 10y ago
It's true, dumb is the opposite of smart, but nothing there implies that small town folk are dumb.
Small town folk are of average intelligence, with a lower concentration of significantly smarter people simply due to the fact that high paying jobs are concentrated in urban areas.
If you were to concentrate high paying jobs in small towns, you'd see the reverse happening.
As for being closed minded---I'd find that people from urban areas are more close minded if they happen to live in their enclave without much interaction outside of it. Many people in cities are highly mobile, but many people in cities just treat their neighborhood as a walled garden, and are highly defensive against other types of people.
- matheweis 10y agoThat still makes the assumption that the smartest people must necessarily be taking on the highest paying jobs. That may or may not be true.
- ZeroFries 10y agoNo, it assumes smarter people take higher paying jobs on average, which is most likely true. https://pumpkinperson.com/2016/02/11/the-incredible-correlation-between-iq-income/ https://pumpkinperson.com/2016/02/11/the-incredible-correlat...
- RUG3Y 10y agoI've lived in city and rural environments. In my experience, people in the city are far more judgmental of rural people than the opposite. Rural people are too busy with manual labor jobs to worry about what's happening in the city.