[lbo-talk] this'n'that

[Jim Westrich]

I have no reason to suspect any distortion of the evidence, but note the
carefully selected frame of cities over 200,000 which includes "college towns"
like Madison but does not include most other "college towns".

Jim

"The world won't end in darkness, it'll end in family fun
With Coca Cola clouds behind a Big Mac sun"

     --Paul Heaton
Quoting Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com>:


> >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> >
> >snit snat wrote:
> >
> >>http://www.uww.edu/npa/cities/
> >>America's most literatre cities
> >
> >Pretty funny. NYC, right there between Virginia Beach & Shreveport.
>
> I note with interest that the source of these rankings is the University of
> Wisconsin-Whitewater and that, wondrous to say, Minneapolis and Madison are
> rated #1 and #4 respectively.  But I see no real reason to be skeptical.
> LA, after all, appears on this list of 79 cites as #68, which seems
> reasonable enough.
>
> I assume folks in last-ranked El Paso communicate mainly by pictograms.
>
> Carl