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Hmm. Well. Let’s see. 5th best healthcare out of the fifty states according to [0]. 1st best education system [1]. 7th by median household income [2]. Wow!

by codyb 8y ago

Hmm. Well. Let’s see. 5th best healthcare out of the fifty states according to [0]. 1st best education system [1]. 7th by median household income [2]. Wow! 45th on the infrastructure list [3]. 37th on inequality [4]. So, seems like you get what you pay for. My guess is that all those plains states have less people and less infrastructure to maintain in general, and with great opportunities also comes great inequality in some instances. I did not read a word on any of the linked articles besides rank as I’m at work. But it seems interesting, and I didn’t skip over the ones that surprised me. [0] - https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/health-care https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/health-care [1] - https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education [2] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_income https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr... [3] - https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/infrastructure https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/infrastruct... [4] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Gini_coefficient https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Gini_...

dsfyu404ed 8y ago
Education in MA is nothing special. We look good on paper because we have a lot of rich people to drag the various averages and medians up. The kids of all those pharma engineers, college professors and tech workers tend to do pretty well regardless of the school system you put them through. If you compare outcomes relative to inputs (i.e. compare poor kids to poor kids and rich kids to rich kids) the range of differences between states gets a lot smaller and it's IIRC Texas and a couple other states you'd never have expected that do the best. Edit: can't find the citation but it was an article that was on HN awhile back.

by codyb 8y ago

dsfyu404ed 8y ago

Education in MA is nothing special. We look good on paper because we have a lot of rich people to drag the various averages and medians up. The kids of all those pharma engineers, college professors and tech workers tend to do pretty well regardless of the school system you put them through. If you compare outcomes relative to inputs (i.e. compare poor kids to poor kids and rich kids to rich kids) the range of differences between states gets a lot smaller and it's IIRC Texas and a couple other states you'd never have expected that do the best. Edit: can't find the citation but it was an article that was on HN awhile back.