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When I worked with some NASA engineers from Alabama, I had trouble taking them seriously due to their accent! They were the ones getting stuff done, though. Sta
by sgtnoodle 4y ago
When I worked with some NASA engineers from Alabama, I had trouble taking them seriously due to their accent! They were the ones getting stuff done, though. Statistically, Alabama ranks significantly better than California for both child and adult literacy. Are you perhaps a bit biased in your opinion of people from the south?
- jnwatson 4y agoHuntsville had the highest per capita Ph.D for a while due to operation paperclip.
- octonion 4y agoNot if you include literacy in any language e.g. Spanish or English.
- anon_123g987 4y agoYou are shadowbanned.
- grzm 4y agoThey're not shadow banned: they were explicitly banned. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520597
- bmacho 4y agoOFF: But octonion just made a post, that I (and other people?) can see? I don't understand. OFF2: I wish for a functionality that could make my own post gray/collapsed, if it is offtopic. I must risk points, and being actually banned (or just don't be offtopic) this way. edit: I am just asking for some explanation about how things work, e.g. why GP said "you are shadowbanned", and what's happening, really.
- grzm 4y agoSomeone must have vouched for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33302111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33302111. I assume it was [dead] before.
- lupire 4y agoThis is a great example of Simpson's Paradox Split across racial lines, AL has lower literacy than CA among each of Whites, Hispanics, and Blacks. But because the literacy rate among whites is higher than Hispanics and Blacks, and Alabama is much more White than CA, AL's overall literacy rate is higher.
- knaekhoved 4y agoAlabama is over 25% black, which doesn't do them any favors from a simpson's paradox perspective. CA is 40% hispanic, and hispanics fall in between whites and blacks on literacy, so I'd expect this to more or less come out in the wash.
- jprd 4y agooof. Own goal.
- treeman79 4y agoLot of southern areas have massive differences depending on location. I life in an area that any hipster would love. Much of the rest of the state is hillbilly as can be.
- mcculley 4y agoMost of Alabama is unlike Huntsville.
- Spooky23 4y agoThe state is like 47th or 48th in education consistently. People are poorer, they live shorter lives, and lack access to basic services like hospitals. It’s a sad state of affairs.